Read up into the basics of flower pollination — there's more to it than meets the eye! Plus, find flowers to grow in your ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Dipping its beak into the sweet nectar of a flower, a hummingbird is doing more than getting a meal – it's contributing to a microbial community that could potentially determine the fate of that ...

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 ...

They may be small, but bees and other insects play a critical role in pollination and maintaining a natural balance in our environment. The short term solution could lie with drones. Eijiro Miyako ...

Most people assume plants reproduce through whatever pollen happens to land on them. This is not true. A collaborative ...

An embodied artificial intelligence (AI) version of China's robot GEAIR, capable of autonomous navigation and flower breeding ...