Artificial pollination may be able to help fill this gap. Lisa Wasko DeVetter Lisa Wasko DeVetter checking a hive of bees "Travel can stress honey bees and weaken colonies, but the business of ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

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 ...

I’ve already covered solitary bees and bumble bees in previous columns but have reserved today’s discussion for the most ...

"There's about 1.3 million acres of almond trees in California, and each acre requires two honey bee hives for pollination, so that's about 2.6 million honey bee hives every year. They are coming ...

A new study reveals alarming risks that pesticides pose to ground-nesting bees, which are crucial for pollination and food ... study's key discoveries include: Bumble bee queens may be attracted ...

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 ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination ... the front end of the bee on a teaspoon or an upturned drinks cap in a sheltered place and allow the bee time ...

They are among a third of all crops that need bees for pollination. While northern hemisphere honey bees are increasingly threatened by disease, pesticides, habitat loss and climate change ...

Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. Pollination ... solutions for honey production and export marketing.