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, ...

Learn how stingless bees quietly sustain Amazonian forests — and how a new law is changing what happens when they’re harmed.

A first-of-its-kind study is paving the way for how Colorado cares for its tiniest residents: pollinators. From species like the minute Metallic Green Bee to the larger White-lined Sphinx Moth, ...

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 ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Regardless, insect pollination remains essential for pollen movement and achieving economically viable yields of fruits with marketable size. To better understand this relationship between insect ...

Scientists have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted in ...

UW scientist Madison Crawford, in the background, studies the rare Laramie chickensage, which can be seen with its distinctive yellow flowerheads in the foreground. (Lusha Tronstad Photo) A rare ...

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

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 ...