Soap bubbles are quite good pollinators, a new paper shows
They look pretty, too.
Tag: pollen
Beetle trapped in amber pushes back insect pollination by 50 million years
This is the earliest known physical evidence of insect pollination.
Pollen clouds cover south-east USA causing allergy spikes
We're at the peak of allergy season.
Insecticides and low floral diversity are driving bumblebees into the ground
Each year, queens have to re-establish their colonies. Human activity, however, is making it very hard for them to do ...
Sick bees take care of themselves by eating better quality food
Sadly the study makes no mention of chicken soup.
Bees prefer rural flowers to urban ones, new study indicates
Bees are more of the rural type, it seems.
Pollen may actually influence weather
Spring - for some people it's the most beautiful time of the year, when the snows melt, the sun shines ...
Amber fossil shows early reproduction in flowering plants
A cluster of 18 flowering plants from the Cretaceous (100 million years ago) has been found preserved in amber Among ...