A garden can do more than look pretty—it can work like a living support system for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects.

A yard buzzing with bees, fluttering with butterflies, and visited by hummingbirds feels alive in a way that few landscaping ...

These shade-loving plants prove you do not need full sun to fill your yard with bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds ...

A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of pollinators, you probably think only of bees. However, many other creatures play a part in pollinating our ...

Native plants and insects evolved together making them the best match for each other. Nativar flowers often have reduced ...

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 ...

Newly created grassland habitats that compensate for nature lost to development can effectively support wild pollinators like ...