Did you know that you can thank pollinators for one out of every three bites of food you eat? You probably didn't know. In which case you probably aren't thinking much about how your daily life ...
Pollinators are insects that visit the flowers we grow. They drink the nectar from the flowers and when they do, they get sticky pollen grains on their body which they take from flower to flower ...
But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...
We’ve shown that pollinator biodiversity tends to be higher in larger fragments of the Garry Oak Ecosystem, but this is largely due to the response of some (but not all) nesting guilds of bees. Pollen ...
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 ...
Pollinators are an important part of our ecosystems, even in the city, and even if you only have a small space, you can help them out with some edible habitat. There are more than 2,000 species of ...
Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ...