Bee balm has pollinator written in its title! This flowering plant belongs to the mint family and spreads at a moderate pace, ...
Report the first flowering of a selection of plants, shrubs and grasses, as well as a range of events relating to trees. These events are recorded each year to help track the impact of climate change ...
Whitaker suggests it’s fun to use a pollinator meadow seed mix to plant a mini meadow in a pot. “This is a great way to trial ...
Many plants, including crops and the beautiful flowers we like to surround ourselves ... apple blossom and showed that insect pollination tripled the production of fruit and boosted its size and ...
Learn how to make a pollinator garden that supports plant reproduction and biodiversity by picking the right flowering species and providing proper care. You don’t need a lot of space to create ...
Interaction networks are typically presented and analyzed as compiled observations over multiple time periods or sites but decomposing networks into their spatiotemporal components can give us ...
We depend on pollinators for the ecosystem services they provide. This project will evaluate the long-term change in a diverse plant-pollinator network by re-sampling data from a century-old classic ...
Currently, we are investigating how pollen limitation of multiple wildflower species varies among years and fragments that differ in bee diversity, and we are building plant-pollinator interaction ...
But of course, any animal that visits a flower has the potential to be a pollinator! Almost 90% of flowering plants need pollinators to reproduce, so bees are important for ecosystem stability. Like ...
Mutualistic interactions are mutually beneficial species interactions. Plant-pollinator mutualisms are particularly important, and involve nearly 170,000 plant and 200,000 animal species.
Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal ...