Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Layla Bistline shows off her butterfly wings during the Pflutter Pfest on Saturday at the Pflugerville Public Library. She brought ...

The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies Erin Wunderlich Trays of insect specimens from the ...

Ecologists have long seen a strong connection between biodiversity and pollinators—the butterflies, birds, bats, bees, and other insects that help the flowers they snack on fertilize by transferring ...

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers looking at plant-pollinator interactions—here’s what I learned Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower.

For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields ...

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Bees and butterflies help produce our food by pollinating the crops farmers grow. In fact, 35% of the world's food crops, including fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, depend on pollinators. But ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Pollinators use flowers’ airborne aroma molecules to navigate to nectar from great distances. Human-made air pollution degrades flower chemicals and hides plant scents, interfering with the ability of ...

The Pflugerville Public Library hosted Pflutter Pfest on Saturday, where families could celebrate pollinators with educational speakers, hands-on activities, vendor tables, crafts and resources ...