Plants may have “ears” after all. New research reveals that flowers can detect the buzzing sounds of approaching pollinators and respond by quickly sweetening their nectar, essentially setting out a better treat for their insect visitors. This discovery of acoustic communication between plants and pollinators challenges our understanding of plant biology and suggests an intricate relationship millions of years in the making.

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High-yielding forage grasslands frequently comprise low species diversity and receive high inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. To investigate multispecies mixtures as an alternative strategy, the 26-site i...

We test how activity and locomotor mode affect metabolic scaling in arthropods. Only winged insects show increased scaling with activity, likely due to flight-related thermal and biomechanical factor...

Pollinators, like bumblebees, are essential for agriculture, yet they’re declining due to landscape simplification and habitat loss. In this blog post, Riho Marja and colleagues tell us more about …

At a time when the UK’s wildlife is under increasing pressure, the everyday spaces we manage—especially gardens—are becoming ever more important. Although interest in wildlife-friendly gardening ha…

This step-by-step protocol details the production, deployment, and processing of trap nests, a sampling tool for cavity-nesting Hymenoptera that enables the collection of detail...

Abstract. The evolution of tube-like floral morphologies that control pollen release via small openings (functionally poricidal flowers) represents a taxon

Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...

Rearing insects in the school classroom can build positive attitudes towards insects among schoolchildren, which is becoming increasingly important as insect populations decline. Identified frequent...

Mario Vallejo-Marín, Anna Lundgren This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Pollination is a mutually beneficial partnership between plants…

Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.

Photo: Katherine Holland Dear Friend, I’m reaching out with profound sadness – and with gratitude for a life well lived. As you may have seen, Dr. Jane Goodall has passed away at the age of 91. We’ve ...

The use of a simple but effective proxy could be an important starting point for the expansion of wild bee monitoring initiatives at the regional scale, particularly given the growing involvement of ....

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Pollinators, such as bumblebees, are essential providers of ecosystem services for agriculture, yet their numbers are declining due to landscape structure simplification and habitat loss. To explore t...

Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...

While biodiversity levels have been studied in many different landscapes, villages have been relatively unexplored in comparison. This study examines biodiversity in Eastern European villages across l...