Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem.

For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...

Drones can be effective pollinators in controlled environments, but they are not equipped to replace the work of bees in natural systems. (Pixabay, Pexels) In towering glasshouses at a tomato farm in ...

TWO WELLS, Australia/MERU NATIONAL PARK, Kenya: In towering glasshouses at a tomato farm in South Australia, everything from the temperature to the ultraviolet radiation levels is tightly controlled.

TWO WELLS, Australia/MERU NATIONAL PARK, Kenya, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – I n towering glasshouses at a tomato farm in South Australia, everything from the temperature to the ultraviolet ...

Contaminated air is not only bad for us, it can also disrupt bees' highly attuned senses for finding flowers. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to ...

Spring is in full swing, paving the way for the upcoming balmy summer months. Following the renowned Chelsea Flower Show, many of us are gearing up to spruce up our summer gardens, adorning our lawns ...

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees have been pollinating 80% of the Amazon’s flora, including such crops as ...