If you want to keep enjoying apples, melons and blueberries, bees need to be healthy and cared for. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature’s most ...

Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate and continue to vanish without a trace. Why should anyone care? Well, they matter a lot more than most people would think. With summer upon us, it’s ...

In the media buzz about bee losses, a lot of proposals have been floated about how to replace natural pollinators, come the beepocalypse. Robotic bees seem like a fairly simple proposition; fly the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers found that sparse pollination led to an estimated 427,000 deaths every year. This is because suboptimal ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 10, 2023) Pollinator losses are responsible for reducing the global production of nuts, fruits, and vegetables by 3-5%, and this loss of healthy, nutrient-dense food is ...

This study was led by Prof. Shuang-Quan Huang, Director of Institute of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University. Prof. Huang has been dedicated to pollination ...

In the realm of plant biology, pollination stands as a vital process, underpinning the survival and propagation of diverse ...

Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial plants appeared. This colorized confocal microscopy image shows the body of an ...