Sunflower yields rise with insect pollination, showing how biodiversity and simple farm practices support harvests.

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 ...

Who and what are pollinators and why should you care? Bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths, flies, and even a few beetles are pollinators and their hard work in our gardens provides food for our ...

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 ...

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” ...

Bees and butterflies help produce our food by pollinating the crops farmers grow. In fact, 35% of the world's food crops, ...

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...

Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature ...

Why have some plant species changed pollinators in their evolution? An international team of researchers studied the reproductive systems of three sister species pairs, where one species is pollinated ...

Democrats in the state House of Representatives are sending legislation to the state Senate to protect pollinators and other ...

A rare species of sagebrush found only in southeast Wyoming survives primarily through pollination by bees, according to new research led by a University of Wyoming graduate student. That makes the ...

The Laramie chickensage is unusual among the hundreds of species of sagebrush, most of which are primarily pollinated by the wind. A rare species of sagebrush found only in southeast Wyoming survives ...