Pollination Management is the label for horticultural practices that accomplish or enhance pollination of a crop, to improve yield or quality, by understanding of the particular crop's pollination ...

Drones that blow pollen-laden bubbles onto blossoms could someday help farmers pollinate their crops. Rather than relying on bees and other pollinating insects — which are dwindling worldwide as a ...

Amber from the Cretaceous period found in Spain has revealed the first ever fossil record of insect pollination. Scientists discovered and studied with X-rays at the ESRF a specimen of a tiny insect ...

Think about strong perfume and a threesome, and what do you get? No, try again. The correct answer is — reproduction by an ancient type of plants called cycads. Sure, lots of plants use a third party ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Here's a look at the essential roles pollinators play in sustaining life on Earth and what's being done to save them. Much of the plant life, including flowering plants and human food crops, require ...

March 17 (UPI) --Farms surrounded by a greater diversity of insect populations benefit from more stable, reliable pollination services, according to a new study. In a first-of-its-kind study, ...

From the region that gave us pollination by cockroaches and dung beetles, here’s another of Nature’s peculiarities: a plant that relies on a fungus as well as a pollinating insect. In Malaysia, the ...

One day, gardeners might not just hear the buzz of bees among their flowers, but the whirr of robots, too. Scientists in Japan say they’ve managed to turn an unassuming drone into a remote-controlled ...