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Many Lepidoptera species are declining to the point that active measures such as reinforcements and reintroductions are necessary to maintain viable p...
Read moreBee-friendly plants are defined by the quantity of food they produce and the visitation rates of adult insects foraging for nectar. However, it is pol...
Read moreTwo ecological risks associated with the use of transgenic crops are transgene movement into wild populations and effects on non-target organisms, suc...
Read moreTo help evaluate the worth of alternative pollinators in agriculture, we present a theoretical framework for comparing the effectiveness of two or mor...
Read morePlant-pollinator mutualisms are fundamental to natural and agricultural systems. In Australia, several species of native plants produce large volumes ...
Read moreBlocks of onion plants were either caged with honeybee colonies or left uncaged. Although the uncaged plants produced fewer umbels, the weight of seed...
Read moreIn general, bees collecting nectar only, as well as bees collecting nectar and pollen, preferred male-fertile to male-sterile cultivars of onion plant...
Read moreNeonicotinoids are now the most widely used insecticides in the world. They act systemically, travelling through plant tissues and protecting all part...
Read moreAspects of the flowering biology of wild cashew A. occidentale, an andromonoecious, self-fertile tree, were investigated in north-east Brazil, where t...
Read moreAgri-environmental schemes (AES) are commonly adopted in Europe to reduce the loss of farmland biodiversity. These schemes have, however, been critici...
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