New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Peking University, May 6, 2025: The research team led by Qu Lijia and Zhong Sheng from the School of Life Sciences and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences has discovered a conserved "two-step ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

It’s the first known case of an animal helping algae reproduce, and could suggest that pollination first evolved in the world’s ancient oceans. By Annie Roth Move over birds and bees, there is another ...

Air pollution may blunt the signature scents of some night-blooming flowers, jeopardizing pollination. When the aroma of a pale evening primrose encounters certain pollutants in the night air, the ...

Researchers may have discovered the first example of a frog that pollinates flowering plants. By Sofia Quaglia On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity — and people are largely to blame. The researchers found that nitrate ...

The much-maligned insect could be the key to ensuring future supplies of many of the world’s favorite foods Stephanie Pain, Knowable A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of ...

Life as a single seaweed along a rocky coastline can be tough. Though there are plenty of potential partners out there, stalks of these large algae are stuck in place, and possible mates often keep ...