Sunflower yields rise with insect pollination, showing how biodiversity and simple farm practices support harvests.

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 ...

Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing ...

I was out with students taking pictures of tree buds as part of our citizen science Budburst project. Only two types of tree buds had opened up yet, both flowers, red maples and pussy willow. The red ...

Bugs including hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds play an important role in keeping Britain's apples healthy, a new study has shown. Wildflower strips planted around apple orchards provide a habitat ...

Insects that eat flowers are troublesome pests and an ever-present source of exasperation in the home garden. This is ...

Unprecedented hot weather in the UK this summer has led to an "explosion" of pests, a horticulturalist has said. The Met ...

A Greenfield bride says she was horrified to find hundreds of insects crawling out of a floral bouquet she received the night before her wedding.Her friends ordered the flowers from a local woman to ...

Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious ...