Pollinators

New findings from a St. Louis pilot study show bee pollinator habitats along highway corridors can potentially increase bee populations and improve food sustainability efforts.

Honey bees may not be native to North America, but the insects are critical to pollinating field crops and fruit trees across the region — not to mention the delicious honey they make. Occasionally, though, Missouri's official state insects make their homes in inconvenient places. One local beekeeper is known for stepping in to help.

Ameren owns thousands of acres in Illinois rights-of-way — land that biologists say they can be used to create habitats for threatened pollinators.

In recent decades, climate change has shifted when Missouri wildflowers bloom. Once-forgotten data found in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden have become a springboard for St. Louis scientists studying how climate change may affect the survival of native plants in the future.

Scientists who study pollinating bees and butterflies report that state laws across the U.S. aren’t doing enough to protect the very animals that help…

Eileen Graessle leaned in close to a patch of milkweed, as she tried to capture a photo of a honeybee in motion.It was a difficult task, but one that…

Scientists are concerned that monarch butterflies could be facing a new threat: pesticides that contain dicamba. A report released last week from the…

Among the many ways rising global temperatures are changing the environment, from shrinking polar ice caps to rising sea levels, research in recent years…

When a native bee received federal protection under the Endangered Species Act for the first time earlier this year, it drew an attention to a growing…

A buzzing bee may not sound like much to most people but to bee scientists, there’s a lot to learn from the noises bees make when they fly and pollinate…