When you add new flowering plants to your garden this year, be sure to keep pollinators in mind. Planting for pollinators is a colorful way to attract bees, butterflies, birds and insects to your ...

Without pollinators, a third of flowering plant species would produce no seeds and half would suffer an 80% or more reduction in fertility. Therefore, even though auto-fertility is common, it by no ...

Pollinators come in a variety of forms, from buzzing yellow bees to eye-catching butterflies to even less commonly thought of animals like birds and bats. Regardless of type, pollinators can elevate ...

As summer draws toward an end, many flowers are fading. But busy bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds and other wildlife are still hungry for pollen and nectar. “Late-season blooms are just as ...

UF/IFAS Extension Marion County is thrilled to announce that Florida has joined the Great Southeast Pollinator Census! We will be partnering with the states of Georgia, South Carolina and North ...

From the standpoint of pollination, there are efficient pollinators and those that are less effective. “Good” or “effective” pollinators are those that are abundant and have a high likelihood of ...

A definitive assessment of the status of pollinator populations in North America will hinge on the quality and availability of data from a variety of well-corroborated sources, and such information is ...

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 ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker while Stephanie Ramthun pulls out a wooden slat covered in buzzing ...