One study found more than 25 different bee and hoverfly species on apple blossom and showed that insect pollination tripled the production of fruit and boosted its size and quality. The list of insect ...

Pollinators are animals that help to transport pollen from one location to another in the plant reproduction process.

"If you look through a list of crops and think about which fruits ... the fall – those are the crops that typically need to be pollinated by insects," Turo says. And yet, there's a lack of ...

When reviewing a blooming chart for the garden, limit the list to perennials ... Adding plants that attract pollinators is a good way to start filling in the blank spots for your chart.

Then I became a horticulturist and discovered the importance of pollinators. More than 75% of flowering plants rely on a pollinator to set seed or fruit. Pollinators help move pollen from the ...

Carry out a 10 minute count of the number of pollinators visiting a flower from a list of 14 target flowers. The survey can be done in good weather any time between between April and September. Survey ...

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly.

We’ve shown that pollinator biodiversity tends to be higher in larger fragments of the Garry Oak Ecosystem, but this is largely due to the response of some (but not all) nesting guilds of bees. Pollen ...