Insufficient pollination of crops poses a human health risk equivalent to prominent health conditions, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Three-quarters of ...

Tropical crops such as coffee, cocoa, watermelon and mango may be at risk due to the loss of insect pollinators, finds a new study. Tropical crops such as coffee, cocoa, watermelon and mango may be at ...

Rachel Mallinger receives funding from United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the University of ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Many 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 in ...