On the corner of a dirt road winding among cacti and summer-browned treetops in Israel's central region, a quiet revolution is underway to save the world's pollinators. It comes in the form of a ...

Israeli agri-tech startup Edete Precision Technologies for Agriculture, which has developed technology to artificially pollinate crops, is expanding its scope to include not just insect-pollinated ...

Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and nectar ...

I know that you have to plant more than one of most fruit trees and berry bushes to get good fruit. Is that also true of vegetables? A: For crops that we're growing to eat the leaves or roots (lettuce ...

Bees are essential for the health of people and the planet. Honey and other products have medicinal properties, and the role of bees as pollinators makes them vital for food supplies. There are around ...

With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny female insects called thrips had just dusted themselves with hundreds of pollen grains from a gingko tree more than 100 million years ago when they perished ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully used a tiny drone to pollinate an actual flower, a task usually accomplished by insects and animals. The remote-controlled drone was equipped with horsehairs ...

Mini drones sporting horsehair coated in a sticky gel could one day take the pressure off beleaguered bee populations by transporting pollen from plant to plant, researchers said. Roughly ...