Pollination

X-Ray Study Yields Surprising New Insight About Ancient Bugs

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Video, Oldest Pollination, Pollination, Paleontology, Insect Pollination, Gymnospollisthrips, Insects, Oldest Insect Pollination, Prehistoric Insects, Thrips, Science News

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 05/14/2012 06:15 PM EDT on LiveScience With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny fem...

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Are Bees Everywhere In Trouble?

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Bee Dieout, Video, Bees, Bee Species, Pollination, Colony Collapse Disorder, Bee Dieoff, Pollinators, Insects, Honeybees, Animals, Bee Colony Collapse Disorder, Green News

Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers r...

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The Collapse of the Honey Bees

Wendy Strgar | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Honey, Pollination, Honey Bees, Agriculture, Green News
Wendy Strgar

The plight of the honeybees is our plight. In much the same way as the bees are lost on their way home, we have also lost our way.

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The Plant That 'Talks Back' To Bats

Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Bat Study, Vine Bats, Pollination, Cuban Rainforest Vine Bats, Bats, Marcgravia Evenia, Cuban Rainforest Vine, Bats Pollination, Animals, Video, Green News

In a new study, researchers have found that a Cuban rainforest vine has evolved dish-shaped leaves to help attract the bats which pollinate the plant....

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Do Iridescent Flowers Have More Pollinating Power?

AP | By RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Hibiscus Flower, Queen of the Night, Pollination, Flower Pollination, Iridescent Flower Pollination, Nature, Blazing Star Wildflower, Iridescent Flower, Iridescent Pollinate, Iridescent Flowers, Green News

LONDON -- Scientists are showing off a little-known property of some common garden flowers: They're iridescent, meaning that light shimmers off them l...

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ReThink Interview: Taggart Siegel & Jon Betz, Makers of Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Jon Betz, Bees, Monoculture, Pollination, Rethink Interview, Colony Collapse Disorder, Rethink Reviews, Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling US?, Honeybees, Jonathan Kim, Taggart Siegel, Green News
Jonathan Kim

Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? looks at possible causes of colony collapse disorder as well as the millennia-old relationship between bees and humans that had been so mutually beneficial for so long.

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Check-up on Obama's Energy Plan: Inflating the Tires, Not the Numbers

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Resources, Politics, John McCain, Alaska, Pollination, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Oil, Cars, United States, Oil Reserves, Automobile, Barack Obama, Green News
Bill Chameides

If we all channeled candidate Obama and inflated our tires properly, we could save nearly as much oil as we are likely to discover by pursuing the offshore drilling plan President Obama recently introduced.

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Warning: This Film May Give You Hives

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honey. Beekeeping, Bees, Media That Matters, Every Third Bite, Pollination, Industrial Agriculture, Colony Collapse Disorder, Hives, Häagen-Dazs, Video, Entertainment News
Kerry Trueman

2008-06-03-Picture5.jpg Basically, the bees are bailing on us. And without their powers of pollination, a wide range of crops, from almonds to zucchinis, could be about to vanish from our lives, along with the bees.

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