Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

Planting more flowers is widely seen as a simple way to help struggling bees. But a new study suggests that, without careful ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

The diversity of bees and of the flowers they pollinate, has declined significantly in Britain and the Netherlands over the last 25 years according to research led by the University of Leeds and ...

More flowers lead to more pathogen spread between bee species. In A Nutshell Scientists found that sites with more flower ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that more bees equals more pollination, and that bee shortages are to blame for diminishing ...

Bees leave an electric trace on pollinated flowers, telling other bees the flower is tapped out. A study found fertilizers change that electric field and put bumblebees off from fertilizing. Bees are ...

In a typical pollination scenario, the spiky, genome-packed pollen from a flower’s male stamen attaches itself to the fuzzy torso of a bee. The bee travels to the next flower in search of more nectar, ...

I’ve mentioned before that some of our native bees are specialists and today I want to introduce you to some bees you may want to get acquainted with if you grow squashes, gourds or pumpkins. These ...

Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...