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Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

If you've ever compared a frozen pizza to the photo on the box, you know the feeling of being duped by appetizing looks. In our latest study published in Ecology and Evolution, we show that animals—in ...

Some of nature's most diverse pollinators often go unnoticed, even by scientists: long-snouted beetles called weevils. A new study provides a deep dive into the more than 600 species of weevils, ...

Pollinator gardens are the talk of the town these days. Flowers that are known to attract bees and butterflies are purposefully planted in the garden to encourage pollination, which is essential for ...

Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators. There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Pollination dynamics within plant communities arise from intricate mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and their animal vectors. These interactions govern the transfer of conspecific ...

It’s been a rocky start to the 2024 growing season for many corn growers, with some parts of the Corn Belt enduring persistent rainfall, wind and hail. Those weather factors, along with rising ...