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Flowers can produce showy displays that appeal to pollinating insects or animals, but some "cheat" by enticing pollinators ...

Due to this low species diversity, butterflies are not as important for pollination as some other insects, but their abundance in florally diverse meadows and chalk downlands, for example, can ...

M any plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping ...

Most insects are beneficial to humans either directly or indirectly (Peters 1993). Directly beneficial insects include pollinators and insect predators and parasites of pests. Other insects ...

Eighty percent of agricultural crops and one-third of agricultural production depend on pollinating insects. "Yet plant breeders have often ignored the attractiveness of flowers to pollinators ...

Pollinators play a vital role in plant reproduction. Without pollinating insects, many of our crops and wild plants wouldn't survive. You can help pollinating insects by growing food for them. You don ...

Flowers can produce showy displays that appeal to pollinating insects or animals, but some "cheat" by enticing pollinators ...

Many insect hotels will also include bamboo tubes that have been trimmed down to provide many different sized openings that can be used by solitary bees. These are ideal as the bamboo has natural ...

Research in New Phytologist indicates that the tendency of flowers to be “honest” and reward pollinators with nectar is partly genetic, meaning that it can be passed down through generations.

And of course bees play their part in pollinating the flowers that make our gardens come alive in the summer. It really is worrying then that these very special insects are in decline. Ever ...