Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone.

The results of cowslip observations carried out with the help of citizen scientists from 32 countries in over 5,200 locations shed light on the well-being of insect-pollinated plants under changing ...

The robotic insect, which weighs less than a paperclip ... With the improved lifespan and precision of this robot, we are getting closer to some very exciting applications, like assisted pollination," ...

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and ...

Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by ...

For many of these plants, this transfer is carried out by insects in search of food—this is known as insect pollination. The impact of humans on the environment extends to pollination and ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect for artificial pollination to underpin an entirely indoor farm ...

A more efficient artificial pollination method could enable future ... To address challenges in robotic insect design, researchers improved upon earlier models composed of four identical units ...

The MIT researchers were able to significantly increase the flight time of an insect-sized flapping wing robot compared to ...