Plenty of delicious herbs also offer beautiful blooms. This one in particular will attract plenty of bees, butterflies and ...

A garden can do more than look pretty—it can work like a living support system for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects.

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

Native plants and insects evolved together making them the best match for each other. Nativar flowers often have reduced ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...

In Nepal's remote mountain district of Jumla, preparation for a family meal begins long before food reaches the cooking pot. It starts in terraced fields of beans, buckwheat, apples and pumpkins that ...

Scientists have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted in ...

Since the end of the second world war, factors such as more intensive farming and urbanisation have reduced the abundance of wildflowers in Britain. In fact, the past 90 years have seen the loss of ...

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 ...

Bug zappers have long been touted as one of the most effective and affordable forms of pest control. In reality, most of them ...