Most fruit trees are also cross-pollinating, and many require pollination between two or more trees, sometimes of a different variety.

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

A series of fortunate events led to this discovery, which dates the insects to around 70 million years earlier than previously known, well before there were flowers around that they could pollinate.

A new study says pollutants like diesel exhaust and ozone make it difficult for pollinators like bees and butterflies to find flowers by scent.

"With both male and female parts, this flower can self-pollinate. However, it is very attractive to pollinators (especially butterflies), so that aids in more complete pollination," she says.

First, a botany review: Pollination occurs when pollen is moved within a flower, or in the case of cross pollination, from one flower to another. Pollination is needed for the formation of fruit ...

Fruit begins with a flower, but not every flower results in a fruit. A number of factors result in the remarkable transformation of flower to fruit and one of the most important is insect pollination.

A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower ...

Workers now pollinate fruit trees artificially, carefully transferring pollen from male flowers to female flowers to fertilize them.

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...