To turn this vision into reality, researchers at MIT are working on robotic insects that might one day emerge from mechanical ...

Some flowers go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. Bee orchids mimic the shape and scent of bees in order to lure them into ‘pseudocopulation’, where the male insect attempts to mate ...

Insects that provide the crucial service of pollination are declining en masse, and that has serious consequences for the world's food crops, 75 percent of which depend at least partially – if ...

Eighty percent of agricultural crops and one-third of agricultural production depend on pollinating insects. "Yet plant breeders have often ignored the attractiveness of flowers to pollinators ...