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Baby corn, essentially unfertilized young ears of corn, is a specialty food gaining interest for its high nutrition and low calorie count. It also has significant economic value as a quick-turnaround ...

Mason bees hibernate in cocoons through the winter and emerge in early spring, pollinating up to 95% of fruit tree and flower blooms. They are easy to host, require no beekeeping skills, and are ideal ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...

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 ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Agronomists and farmers are finding some pollination issues in specific genetics that were impacted by environmental stress during early, rapid growth. Pollination is always a critical point in corn ...

New supplemental feed improves colony health and cuts winter losses for commercial honey bee operations, WSU study confirms ...

Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

The numbers of wild pollinators like this yellow-faced bumblebee have declined in areas where the need for crop pollination is high. Wild bee populations have declined significantly since 2008 in ...

Inadequate pollination has led to a 3-5% loss of fruit, vegetable, and nut production and an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually from lost healthy food consumption and associated diseases, ...

A large percentage of the world's food production relies on bee pollination, but what do we do when the bees can't be relied on? US startup Dropcopter has just demonstrated that it can deliver a 25 to ...