Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

Pollination ecology is a vital field of study that examines the interactions between pollinators, such as bees, and the plants they pollinate. Bees play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity ...

And a large proportion of the world’s food supply is directly, or indirectly, affected by honey bee pollination. Here in the UK around 70 crops are dependent upon, or benefit from, visits by ...

They are more like livestock, raised by farmers for honey and bee products production as well as commercial use as pollinators. Many crops have pollination as a yield limiting factor like it is ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible ... plants which are pollinated by birds and other small animals. Bees are facing many threats globally. These include habitat loss, climate ...

“Most of the things we learn about bees as kids aren’t true about native ... and flowers need the bees for pollination. A flower might be specialized to allow pollination only from certain ...

Human impacts go beyond fragmentation of habitat to other modifications. We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

Narrator: Bees help pollinate the reported 84% of crops humans ... When I talk to the kids, all the kids are very disappointed to hear that we might lose ice cream. Narrator: The extinction ...

New research shows flies can tolerate temperatures 2.3°C lower than bees before losing motor function ... crops like chocolate that depend on fly pollination and for high-altitude ecosystems ...