Mission: Pollination! A larger-than-life education opportunity comes to life with hands-on fun at the Living Desert starting this weekend.

It’s been a rocky start to the 2024 growing season for many corn growers, with some parts of the Corn Belt enduring persistent rainfall, wind and hail. Those weather factors, along with rising ...

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 ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Is AI taking over the jobs of bumblebees? Well, not exactly. Bumblebees are typically used to pollinate plants in glasshouses all over the world. However, they are prohibited in Australia, so ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao ...

Commercial beekeeping operates very differently from the small backyard apiaries many people associate with the practice. Large beekeeping operations often manage thousands of hives that travel across ...