They are more like livestock, raised by farmers for honey and bee products production as well as commercial use as pollinators. Many crops have pollination as a yield limiting factor like it is ...

Most of the world’s crops are dependent on bee pollination and yet bee populations are in decline. Often their natural habitats have been removed and in the periods when crops are not blooming, bees ...

Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring pollen from the male to the female parts of the same plant. The late spider orchid however is pollinated ...