A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower in ...

A Japanese flower lures in its pollinators with a morbid perfume — the scent of injured ants. Mochizuki first noticed the grass flies while studying pollination at the Koishikawa Botanical Gardens in ...

Flies play a crucial role as pollinators, second only to bees in terms of the volume of crops and habitat they pollinate. Pictured here is a blue fly pollinating common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate flowers. Yes, I said insects, birds and other animals. We all know about the ...

It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

Flies might not come to mind when you think of threatened species in need of protection, but research has proved that they are a vital part of our ecosystems. It may seem like there are plenty of ...