All six animals were reported to have licked the flowers, though the total time spent licking the flower heads varied a lot, from around one minute to 1.5 hours.

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate ...

The researchers call it "animal-mediated fertilisation" and ask what this means for our understanding of pollination, which is believed to have developed around 130 million years ago when ...

Pollination is a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystem. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend entirely or at least partially on animal pollination.

Researchers have found that lesser known nocturnal pollinators’ roles ... nearly 80 percent of global crop plants used to make food and other plant-based products require pollination by animals.

Did you know that nearly 75% of the world’s flowering plants depend on pollinators to reproduce Without these tiny creatures, ...

Pollinators aren’t just for pretty front yards, fruit orchards and gardens; the rotation of grazing herds is important to ensure busy bees and other insects have plenty to forage in pastures. Julie ...

A world-first trial led by University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) native bee scientist and conservationist Dr. Kit ...

Nevertheless, “mammal pollination is certainly under-documented,” Ollerton noted. “These observations are just the first step in really understanding whether (the wolves) ...