Pollinating tomatoes by hand can ensure that more fruit develops. Though tomatoes self-pollinate, indoor or sheltered plants may require hand-pollination for fruit production. Hand-pollinate when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...

What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they pollinate plants in urban areas? A study by the Federal Research Institute for ...

Sun-ripened tomatoes are the result of thousands of pollen grains moving at just the right time to pollinate flowers. All types of tomatoes—from beefsteaks that are larger than your hand to bite-size ...