A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity — and people are largely to blame. The researchers found that nitrate ...

Air pollution is making it hard for some Washington state flowers to get pollinated, according to a new study in the journal Science. Exhaust from cars and smokestacks can alter the fragrances that ...

You might not know it, but some moths can smell just as well as dogs. The nighttime insects use their antennae to sniff out flowers heavy with pollen up to a mile away. New research from the ...

Air pollutants reduce nocturnal hawkmoth pollination of evening primrose flowers by altering the flowers’ appealing scents, according to a new study that involved field experiments in Washington state ...

In the evening primrose (Oenothera fruticosa) measurements of the number of pollen grains deposited by each honeybee visit, the number of visits a flower receives and the number of pollen grains ...

Scientists have discovered that nighttime air pollution -- coming primarily form car exhaust and power plant emissions -- is responsible for a major drop in nighttime pollinator activity. Nitrate ...