Researchers have discovered a new global threat to pollination - artificial light at night, which was found to reduce visits of nocturnal pollinators to flowers by 62%. The impact of this is a ...

Also, important fruit crops rely on insects for pollination and it would be a massive scientific undertaking to genetically breed them to become self-pollinators. And also importantly, insects are ...

In an emerging red flag for the digital era, sleep experts have warned us to avoid screen time in bed, sounding the alarm ...

2009). Humans rely on insect pollinators for approximately one third of the food we eat, and a single species provides most of the necessary pollination services — the European honey bee (Apis ...

And a large proportion of the world’s food supply is directly, or indirectly, affected by honey bee pollination. Here in the UK around 70 crops are dependent upon, or benefit from, visits by ...

As the world's native bee populations are declining, crop production requiring pollinators increasingly relies on commercial pollination services. In the U.S., the beekeeping industry is in great ...