Bees and butterflies help produce our food by pollinating the crops farmers grow. In fact, 35% of the world's food crops, including fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, depend on pollinators. But ...

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Bath-based Kennebec Estuary Land Trust will host a free Zoom lecture on ...

Not all commercial wildflower seed mixes are created equal in the eyes of our insect overlords. Wildflower seed mix test plots. (Copyright by Natasha de Vere ...

For years at our farm in central North Carolina, we fed ourselves from our gardens and orchard. We had plenty of food to share, courtesy of the native bees here. Our apple, blueberry, and squash ...

Annual flowering seed mixes are often grown in gardens and parks, but the flowers included may not be the most pollinator-friendly. New research in Plants, People, Planet reveals plant species that ...

Discover why tiny Amazon insects are so vulnerable to heat and what their decline could mean for forests, wildlife, and people.

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