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 ...

Birds have been visiting and pollinating flowers for at least 47 million years, fossil evidence now suggests. The new find pushes back the onset of ornithophily, or bird pollination, by about 17 ...

With the start of May begins Alaska Native Plant Month, a time to celebrate not only the precious sprigs awakening from their ...

Answer: This question is a good one because the answer is beautiful. Big, fragrant, flamboyant flowers are a good indicator that an insect or other animal pollinates the plant. When the flowers are ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully used a tiny drone to pollinate an actual flower, a task usually accomplished by insects and animals. The remote-controlled drone was equipped with horsehairs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only 10%-20% of cacao flowers are pollinated. carlosgaw/E+ via Getty Images It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without ...

The Ethiopian wolf is a reddish-brown solitary hunter only found in the highlands of Ethiopia. "For now, the population is more or less stable," says Sandra Lai, senior scientist at the Ethiopian Wolf ...

An obscure group of scorpionflies with specialized mouthparts may have pollinated ancient plants millions of years before flowers evolved, a new study suggests. Fossils indicate that before flowers ...