More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...

Pollinators are vital to agricultural productivity and maintaining natural ecosystems. Their absence can have devastating ...

Ivy: Well, these pests are bothering my lovely flowers! Posey: They're pollinating them! It's important. Ivy: Are you sure? It looks like they're just headbutting them. Posey: That's because the ...

However, this trend is actually surrounding self-pollinating flowers, not incredibly photogenic flowers — although some of ...

"We are not replacing bees... but rather, offering more efficient pollinating methods to farmers, and reducing the dependence on commercial honeybees," he says. Three out of every four crops grown ...

They echoed previous calls for gardeners to encourage pollinating insects by growing patches of wild plants and weeds. The loss of insects has far-reaching consequences for entire ecosystems.

Today the humble honey bee provides us with a significant proportion of the food that we eat, all thanks to its action as a pollinating insect. And a large proportion of the world’s food supply ...

You see, bees are critical pollinators, meaning they're responsible for pollinating more than a third of the crops that feed the world's population. But today, bees are dying off at record rates.