Agronomists and farmers are finding some pollination issues in specific genetics that were impacted by environmental stress during early, rapid growth. Pollination is always a critical point in corn ...
Strawberry plants are typically considered low-maintenance; however, they sometimes struggle with basic functions and need a helping hand from their gardener.
There’s something in the California air. The state’s spectacular almond bloom—the largest single pollination event in the world—has begun. Orchards are blooming and honey bees are buzzing. The video ...
Next time you sink your teeth into a ripe, juicy peach or fluffy biscuits drizzled with honey, thank the bugs. Without pollinators like bees, butterflies and some other insects, the global food supply ...
Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...
Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial plants appeared. This colorized confocal microscopy image shows the body of an ...
130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ...