It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that more bees equals more pollination, and that bee shortages are to blame for diminishing ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Birds have been visiting and pollinating flowers for at least 47 million years, fossil evidence now suggests. The new find pushes back the onset of ornithophily, or bird pollination, by about 17 ...

Time-lapse of planting tomatillo from a seed to fruits. The seed was taken out from a store-bought toma verde tomatillo fruit, also known as husk tomatoes. After germination, it was growing in a small ...

If the governments of Australia can invest millions into the honeybee industry, they surely have the resources to support ...

Why have some plant species changed pollinators in their evolution? An international team of researchers studied the reproductive systems of three sister species pairs, where one species is pollinated ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...