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 ...

You have likely not spent much time thinking about the uterus of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. But then, neither ...

Almost three-fourths of all crops depend on insect pollinators attracted by floral scents. Honey bees alone are responsible for pollinating one third of U.S. crops. Boosting floral scents would not ...

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 ...

Without flowers, many plants would not be able to reproduce, and many insects would not be able to get enough protein or carbohydrates to survive. Pollination takes place when pollen lands on the ...

Its end splits open, ready to receive pollen from other plants. This is why the bees are so essential. As they fly from ...

Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

While feeding, the bee-fly's tongue gets covered in pollen, which it takes to the next flower in its search for nectar. Not all bee-flies insert their proboscis into the flower, some stab the bottom ...

Without pollinating insects there would be no flowers. Without grazing ungulates ... map of the neurons in the brain of an adult fruit fly. This map, called a connectome, traces the passage ...

Research from Newcastle University reveals that stress makes bees pessimistic. Stressed bees associate fewer rewards with ...