Researchers have observed some wolves visiting as many as 30 flowers at a time, drawn by their apparently sweet and delicious ...

Red hot poker plants are thought to be largely pollinated by birds, according to Jeff Ollerton, a visiting professor at ...

Many crops have pollination as a yield limiting factor like it is for avocado farmers in many geographies including my region. Almond and other fruit farmers depend on bee facilitated pollination ...

Those weather factors, along with rising temperatures and humidity levels, all play a part in the success of corn pollination, notes Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field agronomist. Despite the ...

This is a busy time of the year for the commercial beekeepers. The majority of the commercial beekeepers are involved in the ...

Based at Okauia, near Matamata, Matt and his wife Maxine run Golden Flow Apiaries which has about 1600 hives now chiefly ...

A Waikato beekeeper has come full circle in what is an increasingly unpredictable business. Matt Crawford said limited ...

Sand verbena, Abronia fragrans, has a moth pollination syndrome, or a suite of floral characters modified by natural ...

Ants and camel crickets serve dual roles in both pollinating and dispersing seeds of Balanophora subcupularis, as discovered ...

But for farmers producing plants for hemp fiber and those cultivating flowering plants for medicinal purposes, cross-pollination between neighboring fields has become a significant challenge.

“They’ve got quite brightly colored, often red or orange, tubular flowers, and lots and lots of nectar,” Ollerton, a pollination ecologist, said. He suggested that the plants could also be ...