Cultivating the best nectar-producing plants for honey bees and other pollinators is a crucial endeavour for both local and regional insect and bird populations. Growing nectar-rich plants is also ...

so they don't have a specific relationship with one plant. Butterflies can still help with cross-pollination of a single species though. For example, if you watch a hedgerow, you might see a brimstone ...

The hardy fuchsia is adapted for hummingbird pollination in a variety of ways ... the stigmas on female flowers of other wild celery plants. (The stigma is the sticky section of a flower that ...

Plant-pollinator mutualisms ... Humans rely on insect pollinators for approximately one third of the food we eat, and a single species provides most of the necessary pollination services ...

Pollinator Pathways NH started in 2018 when an article about pollinators and their needs came to my attention. The article ...

Most pollinators work under our radar and are easily overlooked when a garden receives the admiring human gaze. A closer look into the flower of a plant in bloom may reveal a small invertebrate ...

So hear this: Pollinators may be our planet's most ecologically and economically important group of animals. They provide stability for every terrestrial ecosystem in the world, because wild flowering ...

For some gymnosperms called cycads, insects serve as their pollen shuttle service, and did so long before flowering plants needed bees and butterflies for pollination. The discovery, published today ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...