Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

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 ...

While growing corn is relatively easy, ensuring that the ears are full of juicy kernels requires adequate pollination with a ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Sweet bribes buy plants survival: ants act as loyal bodyguards, defending against herbivores but sometimes disrupting ...

Across meadows, forests, and backyards, the familiar buzz of bumblebees has grown quieter. Scientists have been sounding the ...

When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about ...

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 ...

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum (a dogbane species native to Japan ...