When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Recent research, published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, used the database to reveal that orchids show remarkable diversity of highly specialized pollination strategies that differ ...

What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...

Insect pollination is vital for many fruits and food crops. From apples and berries to almonds, bees and other pollinators help fertilise flowers, ensuring fruit development, better yields and ...

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 ...