These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination ... the fruit bat prefers pendulous flowers so that it can fly in place while feeding. Because the nocturnal rousette fruit ...

It’s fine to squish sawflies, but be sure to leave your flower fly larvae free to help rid your garden of aphids before they ...

farmers and scientists to find pollination alternatives — and flower flies are top of that list. University of New England ecology professor Romina Rader is four years into a trial of fly ...

Over millennia, bat-pollinated plants have evolved a neat solution ... So plants that flower at night proffer their wares in exposed, fly-through positions—easy for bats to find and drink ...

Experts believe that wild honeybees outnumber domesticated ones by several times, and they are crucial for the pollination of wildflowers and other plants ... they can fly surprisingly long ...

You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs!

Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), Borneo. This plant has no stem or leaves, instead it is a parasite on a vine. By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower, a ...

Around 80% of Earth's flowering plants need animals to pollinate them - but it's not just bees getting ... for those partial to a bar of chocolate. A bite from a female fly in the family ...

To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two ... from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year, bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion ...

“Mothing is the new birding,” says Liti Haramaty, a researcher at Rutgers University and co-founder of National Moth Week.

Many bee-fly species are parasites of bees and wasps ... This sometimes earns them the name 'flower thieves' because they don't pollinate the flower when they do this. Some bees show the same ...

Once the little bee has had her fill she'll fly off to find more nectar ... her body rubs off onto the stigma of the new flower. This is called pollination. When the pollen lands on the stigma ...