Researchers report a beetle preserved in Burmese amber that suggests early evidence of insect pollination of flowering plants. Insects are thought to have pollinated flowering plants during the ...

1. In forest ecosystems, canopy trees provide a large amount of floral resources for pollinators but flower production fluctuates highly from year to year. Temporal variation in floral resources may ...

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

We tend to think of plants as passive, vulnerable actors. But in their partnership with insects, it’s plants that often play ...

1. Resolving the controversy over the prevalence of generalization in plant-pollinator interactions requires field studies characterizing the pollination effectiveness of all a plant's floral visitors ...

Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

The following is an excerpt from The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister. The hirsute form of the male chocolate midge, Forcipomyia sp., which is essential for cocoa pollination. The pin obscures ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: FameLab this week is about the birds, and the bees. Insects of course normally do most ...