Ten of the best plants to attract pollinating insects to your garden this summer - How to support insect week ...

This year, National Pollinator Week, June 22-29, highlights the outsized role of butterflies and moths and their host plants.

The gardener first noticed something was wrong when her squash plants flowered heavily but produced almost no fruit.

She started the spring with a plan that felt almost therapeutic. The backyard in her suburban neighborhood had always been ...

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 ...

The body size, morphology and associated behavioral traits of flower-visiting insects strongly influence the quantity of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When people talk about helping bees, the advice is usually simple: plant more flowers. That advice is not wrong. Bees do need ...

Highly favoured by long-tongued bumblebees and other pollinators, these tall, striking plants with tubular blooms are ideal ...

These 10 flowering plants attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators during the monsoon. They boost biodiversity, ...

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 ...