Here's everything you need to know to start your own home orchard.

It may come as a surprise that just a few trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants feed 90% of moth and butterfly caterpillars ...

Expert-backed fixes for a more abundant harvest.

Pawpaw trees don’t produce male and female flower parts on separate plants, but even though each tree has all the requisite ...

Pollination underpins fruit set and quality in tree crops, driving yield stability and nutritional value on a global scale. Mechanisms range from self-pollination, in which a flower’s own pollen ...

Q: We purchased a home with four white and pink flowering crabapple trees, and one of the trees is struggling. Less than half the tree shows growth. Should we cut out the dead branches and hope the ...

Tree pollen allergies occur when the immune system overreacts to pollen released by trees, mistaking it for a harmful invader ...

The trees on Morrison’s block are invasive Callery pears, or Bradford pears, which bloom in blizzards across Illinois neighborhoods, roadsides and forests every April.

A state regulatory agency determined the six plant species pose a risk to Michigan’s environment, economy, and/or public ...

Flowering plants exhibit a remarkable diversity of pollination mechanisms and breeding systems that underpin their reproductive success and influence ecosystem function. Abiotic vectors such as wind ...

A Riverside County beekeeper lost some 96 hives - consisting of millions of bees - in last week's Verona fire.

The Case for Keeping Carpenter Bees Around. Carpenter bees are native pollinators. They collect pollen and nectar to feed ...