The annual Pollinator Week is all about celebrating some of the smallest creatures that make the largest impact on the ecosystem. The event, which ended Sunday, is celebrated internationally in ...

Pollen of flowering plants can be dispersed by animals, wind or even by water. In assessing pollination modes, a fundamental question is how many flowering plants are pollinated by animals. Although ...

Lesser long-nosed bats are so linked to tequila that they are commonly called the ‘tequila bat.’ They pollinate agave plants, ...

When most people think of bees, they picture honey bees buzzing around a hive. But honey bees are just a small part of a much ...

When people talk about helping bees, the advice is usually simple: plant more flowers. That advice is not wrong. Bees do need flowers. But new research led by the University of Oxford suggests the ...

An international team of researchers including Florian Etl and Jürg Schönenberger from the University ofVienna, Stefan Dötterl and Mario Schubert from the University of Salzburg, and Oliver Reiser and ...

Pollinators affect 35 percent of the world's food crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading crops worldwide, finds a new study co-authored by a UC Berkeley conservation biologist.

Most woody plants are animal-pollinated, but the global problem of habitat fragmentation is changing the pollination dynamics. Consequently, the genetic diversity and fitness of the progeny of ...

If you’re an avid gardener who cares about sustainability, then people may have told you about having your property certified ...

Flowering plants represent about one-sixth of all Earth's known living life-forms and are important to the survival of most other species. But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far?