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, ...

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 ...

Regardless, insect pollination remains essential for pollen movement and achieving economically viable yields of fruits with ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

Next time you sink your teeth into a ripe, juicy peach or fluffy biscuits drizzled with honey, thank the bugs. Without pollinators like bees, butterflies and some other insects, the global food supply ...

“Turning areas that had been maintained turf grass into meadows made a lot of sense operationally. After the first-year ...

If evolutionary biologists are the detectives of the natural world’s past mysteries, then the phylogenic tree is their version of a cork board of crime-scene suspects linked together with red string ...

Researchers have pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period. A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and ...

Imagine driving down a highway in the summer. The windows are down, the music is loud, and the wind is whipping through your hair. Now picture your car's windshield. You might expect to see a handful ...

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 ...