Given our general reliance on something called “food” you’d think the issue of pollination — and its general decline — might be higher up the world’s agenda. Over 80% of crops require insect ...

What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...

Ah, Spring! The flowers are in bloom, rich in color and scent. Fruit and vegetable crops are showing the beginnings for future harvest. All this beauty and bounty is dependent on a mechanism without ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to a field near Reading in southern England to stare ...