Trees for bees is our citizen science project at Wakehurst. With your help, we can find out what trees pollinators like best and how to make our cities more pollinator-friendly. We often think of ...

Pollination happens everywhere, but most people don’t notice it. Small creatures like bees, butterflies, birds, and bats carry pollen between plants, helping them grow. Without pollinators, flowers ...

In spring, the ornamental cherry trees on our streets and in our gardens morph into clouds of white and pink. Clinging to the branches, the fleecy blossom gives the season a much-needed voluptuousness ...

Unlike agri-environmental management, the researchers aim to make crops, rather than the environment, more attractive to pollinators such as wild bees and butterflies. "In doing so, we aim for a ...

To explore how the diversity of pollen structures may have evolved, I have mapped the pollen data onto the family tree of legumes, which was mostly generated using phylogenetic data from DNA studies.

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It's easy to access everything Charlotte has to offer from The Ballantyne. Though there are cherry trees sprinkled throughout town, you'll find the most photogenic displays at Romare Bearden Park and ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...