While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year, bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion in the ...

Presenter, Maddie Moate, and professional beekeeper, Curtis Thompson, lead five kids from across ... they carry it away. When a bee lands on another plant the pollen rubs off on a part of the ...

As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also utilize deception in order to be get pollinated: Over time, they have evolved elaborate ruses to lure insects. Generally we ...

She provides each egg with a ball of pollen mixed with nectar that ... structures – help explain why there are bees with ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

And a large proportion of the world’s food supply is directly, or indirectly, affected by honey bee pollination. Here in the UK around 70 crops are dependent upon, or benefit from, visits by ...

While the bee gets nothing but a wasted effort, the orchid transfers some of its pollen to the bee. When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to ...

Narrator: Bees help pollinate the reported 84% of crops humans ... When I talk to the kids, all the kids are very disappointed to hear that we might lose ice cream. Narrator: The extinction ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...