Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, researchers suggest. Rising temperatures have substantially reduced cocoa ...

If you want to keep enjoying apples, melons and blueberries, bees need to be healthy and cared for. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature’s most ...

Most of our food is from angiosperms, while more than 90% of angiosperms require insect pollination - making this pollination method hugely important. Nevertheless, scientists have long been unclear ...

The Arava region in Israel is home to a growing area of around 20,000 dunam (5,000 acres) of Medjool dates. Most of the date trees are female, which require pollination using pollen from the male date ...

When all else fails for pollination, a yellow flower in the ginger family relies on a substance that botanists say they’ve never seen before: a do-it-yourself oil slick. Caulokaempferia coenobialis ...

A Spanish research team has shared its findings on avocado pollination with growers in California, emphasizing the need to diversify pollinator insect populations and reduce reliance on honeybees by ...

A new project, "Precision Pollination for Higher Strawberry Productivity and Quality," is underway in the UK, focusing on the application of drone technology to enhance pollination processes in ...