Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared ...

Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing ...

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The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

In Nepal's remote mountain district of Jumla, preparation for a family meal begins long before food reaches the cooking pot. It starts in terraced fields of beans, buckwheat, apples and pumpkins that ...

We gardeners understand the concept of separating. We routinely separate insects in our garden into “good” and “bad” columns.

There’s something quietly alarming about a garden full of lush, flowering squash and cucumber vines that produces almost no ...

Insect populations have been in decline the last 20 years, so if you want to do your part to help them this is what you need ...

I love planting a row of sunflowers along my vegetable garden fence. Their tall stalks add another level to the garden, and ...