An international research group examined which plants honeybees favor when collecting nectar and pollen. The choices honeybees make have an impact on their health and also on humans, as honeybees ...

Fruit crop production relies on effective transfer of pollen to achieve fertilisation, fruit set and quality. Natural pollination by insects—principally bees, bumble bees and other wild ...

Pollination represents a critical ecological service by which pollen is transferred from the male to the female structures of flowering plants, enabling fertilisation and seed production. Mechanisms ...

Brassica rapa plants pollinated by bumblebees evolve more attractive flowers. But this evolution is compromised if caterpillars attack the plant at the same time. With the bees pollinating them less ...

A million records from insect-spotting hobbyists in Europe contain the broadest evidence so far of a decline among some of the region’s pollinators and the wild plants that need them, says an ...