Feb. 1, at 3:30 pm, head over to the West Tisbury library for a presentation about pollinators with naturalist Matt Pelikan.

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 ...

That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet ...

Interestingly, the diversity of human diets is directly linked to pollinators, because most of the color and variety in human diets comes from plants pollinated by insects. Maybe you’ve heard ...

This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical pollination. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250115165102.htm ...

Robotic pollination is an emerging technology aimed at replacing or supplementing natural pollinators, such as bees, with robots. These devices, often inspired by insects, are designed to carry pollen ...

allowing for plants and flowers that are less contaminated for animals and pollinators. You may not realize it, but without insects, we would not survive long on this planet. From the food we eat ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

The results of cowslip observations carried out with the help of citizen scientists from 32 countries in over 5,200 locations shed light on the well-being of insect-pollinated plants under changing ...

MIT researchers have developed highly agile robotic insects that could transform artificial pollination, enabling fruit and vegetable farming inside multilevel warehouses. Inspired by real ...

To help make this idea a reality, MIT researchers are developing robotic insects that could someday swarm out of mechanical hives to rapidly perform precise pollination. However, even the best bug ...