Learn About Butterflies and Moths,
The Children's Butterfly Site,
Have you ever wondered if caterpillars have teeth? How high butterflies can fly? On these pages, find in-depth information about READ MORE http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/faq
Banned pesticides may be having wider environmental impacts
June 13, 2013,
By Matt McGrath, Environment Correspondent,
BBC News
A new report indicates that a class of pesticides linked to the READ MORE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22893619
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
NOVA
PBS.org
You may have missed the show on television, but you can watch the program online. The one-hour program is divided into six chapters. Watch READ MORE http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/butterflies/
NOVA Online | Tales From the Hive
PBS.org
This is the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Tales from the Hive".
Here you will earn about the queen bee, how bees communicate, defense, the c READ MORE http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hive.html
The Basics of Plant Pollination
By Ellen Brown
ThriftyFun.com
Many of the more mysterious problems that come up during the gardening season can be traced to the pollination process going awry. READ MORE http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf67538899.tip.html
The Unsung Heros Of Pollination - Other Insects Responsible For Pollination.
By Veronica Allen
HubPages.com
In an extremely "funtertaining" way, DreamWorks Animation gave us a crash course in j READ MORE http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Unsung-Heros-Of-Pollination
Rainforest Canopy - Bats
By Rhett Butler
Mongabay.com
Today, countless canopy plant species depend on bats for pollination or seed dispersal, making bats the best mammalian dispersal agents.
READ MORE http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0409.htm
Bat Pollination in Cloud Forests,
By Nathan Muchhala, Ph.D.,
Department of Ecology and Evolution,
University of Toronto,
"Over several years studying the diet of nectar bats in Andean cloud fore READ MORE http://www.umsl.edu/~muchhalan/Bat_Flower_Pix.html
Introduction to Pollination
Integrative Biology 335
By Stephen R. Downie and Kenneth R. Robertson, Emeritus
University of Illinois
There are two critical stages in the life cycle of a flowering READ MORE http://www.life.illinois.edu/ib/335/pollination.pdf
Pick the Pollinator
NOVA Online
PBS.org
Flowering plants represent about one-sixth of all Earth's known living life-forms and are important to the survival of most other species. But how did th READ MORE http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flower/pollinator.html
Colony collapse disorder
Wikipedia.org
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) or sometimes honey bee depopulation syndrome (HBDS)[1] is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or European honey READ MORE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
Mysterious collapse of honeybee populations threatens national food supply,
March 21, 2007,
by: Christian Evans, citizen journalist,
NaturalNews.com,
"The honeybee population in the United State READ MORE http://www.naturalnews.com/021724.html
Biology of Plants: Pollination
Missouri Botanical Gardens
Pollination is very important. It leads to the creation of new seeds that grow into new plants.
But how does pollination work? Well, READ MORE http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/pollination.html
Wind Pollination
by Plant Design Online
Flickr.com
Oak trees have flowers too! These are the staminate (male) flowers of an oak tree, blowing in the wind and releasing their pollen on a fine spri READ MORE http://www.flickr.com/photos/22887580@N06/3365952516/
Biology of Plants: Pollination
Missouri Botanical Garden
Pollination
Pollination is very important. It leads to the creation of new seeds that grow into new plants.
But how does pollination READ MORE http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/pollination.html
Pollinators Home Page
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
WHY POLLINATORS ARE IMPORTANT
Pollinators, such as bees, birds, bats and insects, play a crucial role in flowering plant reproduction and in READ MORE http://www.fws.gov/Pollinators/
The Basics of Plant Pollination
By Ellen Brown
ThriftyFun.com
Many of the more mysterious problems that come up during the gardening season can be traced to the pollination process going awry. Cr READ MORE http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf67538899.tip.html
Great Plant Escape - Pollination
University of Illinois Extension
Facts of the Case
Pollination
When pollination occurs, pollen moves from the male parts to the female parts. Pollen grains lan READ MORE http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case4/c4facts1b.html
Kids Good Bug Page
Bugs? Yuck!
Bees? They Sting!
Would you like to hear "The Rest of the Story?"
If all the good bugs were taken from the earth, mankind could only live for a few week READ MORE http://goodbugpage.com/
Celebrating Wildflowers - Pollinators
US Forest Service
Pollinators are responsible for assisting over 80% of the world's flowering plants. Without them, humans and wildlife wouldn't have much t READ MORE http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/
A pollinators is the agent that moves pollen from the male parts of a flower to the female parts of the flower to produce fertilization.