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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new way to track the insect pollinators essential to farming. In a new study, we installed miniature digital cameras and computers inside a greenhouse at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lavender might repel insects like mosquitoes but these fragrant flowers attract pollinators, too. Keeping buzzing insects away when you enjoy time outside in the backyard or front porch is a top ...

A guide to seven of the best perennials to plant in January, and you can get all of these as bare-root plants to benefit bees ...

A solar-pollinator habitat, dominated by purple prairie clover and black-eyed susan flowering plants. Bumblebees buzz from flower to flower, stopping for a moment under a clear blue Minnesota sky.

Get a whiff of this. Airborne chemicals found in common fossil fuels are interfering with the pollination process, new research shows — to the point where it’s changing the way a flower smells. And ...

Solar farms can grow more than just clean energy. They can be a cradle for a struggling but essential population: pollinators. To avoid the worst effects of climate change, we need to stop burning 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 ...