The New South Wales government announced significant funding for honeybee keepers to combat the Varroa mite, but native ...

More than one-third of the crops that support the human diet rely on animals for pollination. That means the pollination ...

Two dark matter experiments have spotted signs of neutrinos knocking into atomic nuclei in their detectors. The finding portends a future obstacle for the detectors, Emily Conover reported in “ ‘Fog’ ...

As the world's native bee populations are declining, crop production requiring pollinators increasingly relies on commercial pollination services. In the U.S., the beekeeping industry is in great ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

To obtain the biggest cherry harvest, trees should be pollinated by both honey bees and mason bees. This new study shows yet another benefit of biodiversity. To obtain the biggest cherry harvest, ...

In an article recently published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers comprehensively investigated the critical factors affecting cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) production, focusing on low ...

The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly due to a woeful combination of climate change, ...

The loss of pollinators, such as bees, is a huge challenge for global biodiversity and affects humanity by causing problems in food production. At Tampere University, researchers have now developed ...

Researchers may have discovered the first example of a frog that pollinates flowering plants. By Sofia Quaglia On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish ...

There is little information about bee populations in Alaska, where native bee pollination is critical to the maintenance of subarctic ecosystems. A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ...