Investing in habitat that attracts and supports wild bees in farms is not only an effective approach to helping enhance crop pollination, but it can also pay for itself in four years or less, according to Michigan State University ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2014
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Flowering plants attract pollinating insects with scent from their flowers and bright colours. If they have become infested with herbivores like caterpillars, they attract beneficial insects like parasitic wasps with the ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2014
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Planting a variety of flowers on farmland could boost the number and diversity of pollinating insects, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2014
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Rutting stags and clawing bears are but two examples of male animals fighting over a mate, but research in New Phytologist has uncovered the first evidence of similar male struggles leading to the evolution of weaponry in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2014
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The global diversity of plants being cultivated by Britain's gardeners is playing a key role in the fight to save the nation's threatened bumblebees, new research has revealed.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2014
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Last spring, when Mary Harris started looking for particular pesticides in the pollen carried by honey bees in northwest Iowa, she didn't find any. But that changed the week tractors hit the fields to plant crops.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2014
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The global decline of bees, hoverflies and other pollinators pose a serious threat to food security and biodiversity. A team of scientists from Wageningen University, Netherlands, and Doñana Biological Station show in the ...
Ecology
Jan 6, 2014
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From tomatoes to pumpkins, most fruit and vegetable crops rely on pollination by bees and other insect species – and the future of many of those species is uncertain. Now researchers from North Carolina State University ...
Ecology
Dec 9, 2013
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Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing published on Wednesday.
Ecology
Dec 4, 2013
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Flower colour in some parts of the world, including the Himalayas, has evolved to attract bees as pollinators, research has shown for the first time.
Ecology
Dec 2, 2013
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