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Let’s face it, no matter how much we love flowers, sometimes they trigger the worst of our allergies, making us wonder if ...
The usual suspect for this issue is blossom drop, where the blooms fall off tomato plants before they are pollinated.
Learn about the differences between male and female cucumber flowers to help boost pollination and produce a healthy harvest ...
The species of this genus have male inflorescences, clusters of flowers on branches, that are pendent and nectarless, which has made scientists assume they are pollinated by wind.
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 ...
March 30, 2024 Researchers Yuta Sunakawa, Ko Mochizuki, and Atsushi Kawakita of the University of Tokyo discovered the first orchid species pollinated by gall midges, a tiny fly species. This is the ...
Wind pollinated plants are what really upset people when they are blooming. Wind pollination is not an efficient way of pollination. The plant has to produce lots of pollen.
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In a paper published in National Science Review, a team of ecologist and evolutionary biologist presents new calculations of how many flowering plants are animal-pollinated. The novel calculation ...
Plants pollinated by wind also have a specific set of traits. Gardeners can use this information to choose plants which will attract a certain kind of pollinator. Let’s consider three examples.