I've spent several years living in the wide-open spaces of Wyoming, and as an avid hiker, I enjoy the natural wonders that flourish in our windswept landscapes. Among them are the myriad ...

If you are growing cucumber plants that are flowering but not producing any fruit, the issue may be pollination -- or a lack thereof. In most gardens, bees and other insects pollinate plants naturally ...

If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be wondering how to pollinate tomatoes effectively – especially when nature isn't doing the job. While tomato flowers are ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant ...

Pollinators is a broad term that includes all animals that transfer pollen, which contains DNA, from one flower to another. The most well-known pollinators are European honeybees, but pollinators also ...

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 ...

You truck in in 40 billion bees. Central California is the biggest orchard in the world and almonds are one of its main crops. There are 40 million trees here with 20,000 flowers each, meaning there ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...