If you savor Palisade peaches, Rocky Ford melons and fresh vegetables from your home garden or enjoy beautiful flowers in your landscape, then this should be of concern. Colorado’s pollinators are in ...
Scientists have discovered that nighttime air pollution -- coming primarily form car exhaust and power plant emissions -- is responsible for a major drop in nighttime pollinator activity. Nitrate ...
The unusual feeding habits of honeybees are likely leading to reduced populations of the Southwest’s dominant plant life, a new paper has found, suggesting the bees could be worsening southern ...
Probably no crop has been scouted better through pollination than in 2025 says Austin Schleich, a technical agronomist with Channel. Across his geography in western Iowa, Schleich says the phenomenon ...
When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...
The diversity of pollinators in East Texas, and what can be done to help them, will be the topic of a pollinator program set for May 27 at the Tyler Rose Garden Center. “Houston, we have a pollinator ...
When the tiny squash fruits at the base of squash blossoms don't get pollinated, the young squash will stop developing, shrivel and eventually dry or drop from the plant. Squash fruits begin as ...
It’s been a rocky start to the 2024 growing season for many corn growers, with some parts of the Corn Belt enduring persistent rainfall, wind and hail. Those weather factors, along with rising ...
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity — and people are largely to blame. The researchers found that nitrate ...