By birds landing on a plant or sucking the nectar from a flower, and then moving on to the next, they assist in pollination. It is therefore important to make them feel welcome in your garden. Download more...
Bats play a key role in ecosystems around the world. For one, they help to pollinate plants and flowers across the globe, as hundreds of plant species – from the rainforests to the deserts – depend on bats for pollination. They also help humans, especially farmers, by...
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are...
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily...
There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms. An earthworm can grow only so long. A well-fed adult will depend on what kind of worm it is, how many segments it has, how old it is and how well fed it is. An Lumbricus terrestris will be from 90-300...
