Most gardeners reach for flowers first when they want to help bees and butterflies. That’s not a bad instinct, but trees tend ...

Ever feel like your garden is missing something? Maybe you've noticed the same flowers in every yard and want to try something new. Using less common plants can help support a wider range of bees, ...

Pollinators—bees, butterflies, bats, birds, wasps, moths, beetles, flies, and other insects and mammals—are essential for our survival. Three-quarters of flowering plants and 35 percent of food crops ...

If your yard gets full sun or reaches high temps, then this heat-tolerant herb will be right at home. Once it flowers, you'll ...

When pollinators visit flowers, they produce a variety of characteristic sounds, from wing flapping during hovering, to landing and takeoff. However, these sounds are extremely small compared to other ...

Facing both climate change and a crashing pollinator population, plants may be evolving to attract pollinators rather than ...

When you add new flowering plants to your garden this year, be sure to keep pollinators in mind. Planting for pollinators is a colorful way to attract bees, butterflies, birds and insects to your ...

For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields ...

Competition between plants to catch the attention of ever fewer pollinators may end up meaning plants become less diverse. Insect populations are in decline around the world, including pollinator ...

Charlotte residents can now register their yards as natural habitats, a new program designed to protect pollinator gardens ...

Increasing urbanization worldwide is a growing threat to biodiversity. At the same time, flowering plants are often more diverse in cities than in the countryside. This is due to flowering plants and ...