Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Pollinating tomatoes by hand can ensure that more fruit develops.

Flowers are mainly made up of four parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and the pistil. Every part has it's unique and different function to make flower grow, fertilise and fruit production. Flower Parts: ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...

It's almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a study published September 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

The Hidden Role of Bats in Pollination That Keeps Many Plants and Crops Thriving: Bats are often misunderstood, yet they play ...

The gardener first noticed something was wrong when her squash plants flowered heavily but produced almost no fruit.

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 ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a new study. After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that ...