Plant flowering shrubs and trees as well as perennials A healthy honeybee colony has 50,000 bees You want blooms from early spring right through fall Buy groups of plants, not solitary specimens As ...

To create a thriving habitat that will sustain the complete life cycle of butterflies and moths, you will need plants that act as host plants and plants with nectar or a food source. Monarchs like the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Pollinators are a vital component of our ecosystems. Approximately ...

Unlike parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, marjoram missed out on a role in the classic song Scarborough Fair, made popular in the 1960s by Paul Simon. But it does have a key additional advantage over ...

About 70% of the world’s crop production relies on pollinator insects for survival. That makes it helpful to know how many pollinators are out there. As a citizen scientist, you can participate in ...

National Pollinator Week is coming up (June 16-22), and it’s the perfect time to recognize the small creatures that play a major role in the success of agriculture. Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and ...

A major global assessment of pollinators is raising concerns about the future of the planet's food supply. A U.N.-sponsored report drawing on about 3,000 scientific papers concludes that about 40 ...

Pollinators are increasingly under threat from human activities and countries must transform their agricultural practices to ensure global crop production can meet demand and avoid substantial ...

Godfrey’s butterworts have leaves coated with small hairs that secrete sticky mucilage, which insects mistake for water or nectar. When the insect gets trapped, the edge of the leaf slowly rolls over ...

As pollinators like honeybees and butterflies decline worldwide, their loss is rippling out across entire ecosystems, report a Princeton-led team of researchers in the journal Nature. They found that ...

James Rodger currently receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and Stellenbosch University. He was also supported by funding from the European Commission while ...

For over 60 years, scientists have tried to determine whether plants are pollinated primarily during the day or at night—without reaching a clear conclusion. Now, a major research review from Lund ...