Human impacts go beyond fragmentation of habitat to other modifications. We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination ...

According to Bat Conservation International, pregnant bats need the nectar in agave to give them energy ... The bats also ...

The lifespan of Agave americana plants is inherently limited ... be returning to the roof two or three more times as the flowers open to apply pollen to Alice’s flowers. “Normally, it’s bats that ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

Pollination takes place when pollen lands on the stigma of a plant. It then travels down to the ovary and it's here that the ovules are fertilised. Most plants have flowers with the male and ...

They eat pests that bother us, too, including mosquitos. And of course, bats pollinate agave plants as they slurp up their nectar, which give us, among other things, tequila. “But at the end of the ...

October is Bat Appreciation Month, and these winged creatures offer valuable benefits to the environment and economy.

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...

Johnson encourages people to welcome bats in their areas by placing bat box houses on tall posts in partial shaded areas on ...