It is well known that animal-pollinated plants usually offer nectar or pollen to reward vectors for pollen transfer. While nectar is a kind of sugar water, pollen is protein-rich, a must-need nutrient ...

On an August evening in Interior Alaska, the sun hangs low over the hills as a bumblebee makes its final foraging trip of the season. The fireweed is fading, the nights are cooling, and the bee will ...

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For the first time, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and Friedrich Schiller University in ...

Fertilizers may change the way flowers "look" to bees and discourage them from pollinating, a study suggests. Flowers attract bees using small electric fields that bees can learn to recognize. The ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Mason bees hibernate in cocoons through the winter and emerge in early spring, pollinating up to 95% of fruit tree and ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature’s most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to ...

Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant ...

Plants with lush double blooms may be gorgeous, but experts agree they’re not the best choice for pollinators.

Bees and other pollinators don't necessarily like the flowers that we do. Fussy double-flowered peonies, vivid petunias, and scentless pelargoniums aren't of much interest to bees. In fact, bees ...