Wild bees, such as this Andrena bee visiting highbush blueberry flowers, provide crucial pollination services to crops across the globe. Photo by Rufus Isaacs Insect pollination is crucial for the ...

Robert Musundire receives funding from the AgriFoSe2030 programme, funded by the Swedish International Development Agency. He is affiliated with Department of Crop Science and Postharvest Technology, ...

FOR African countries that are preserving their biodiversity, domesticating wild animals and plants can be a promising avenue ...

The dreaded crop-eating fall armyworm continues to spread across Africa like wildfire. This invasive insect pest, first reported in Africa in early 2016, is in more than 20 African countries including ...

Researchers studying data from 600 fields in 20 countries have found that managed honey bees are not as successful at pollinating crops as wild insects, primarily wild bees, suggesting the continuing ...

Wild insects are better at pollinating crops than captive honeybees trucked into fields by humans, new research suggests. Crashing populations of wild insects could spell disaster for our food supply, ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food. While it awaits a ...

Short-lived wild insects 'get old' -- losing some of their physical abilities -- before they die, new research shows. Short-lived wild insects "get old" -- losing some of their physical abilities -- ...

Roushanna Gray grew up on the wild side. As a teenager, Gray would collect mushrooms with her family in Cape Town, South Africa, and after moving to the coast 14 years ago, she fully embraced wild ...

Africa is free from wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 25 August — leaving just two countries where the virus remains endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Africa ...