Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Pollination by non-flying mammals is not unheard-of. Small marsupials, like sugar gliders, as well as more commonly known critters, like rats , are known to spread pollen through their movements.

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Row upon row, tomato plants stand in formation inside a greenhouse in Willcox, Arizona. Green stems poke from coconut ...

Pollinators, Pollen and Varieties Determine Fruit Quality Jan. 3, 2025 — Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the ...

Endangered Abyssinian Wolves Observed Pollinating Flowers in Ethiopia, Making Them the First, Large Carnivorous Animal to Do So ... recruiting ‘juvenile pollinators.’ "Wolves were observed ...

There are over 200,000 species of animal pollinators and the vast majority of these are insects (Berenbaum 2007). Insect pollinators include beetles, flies, ants, moths, butterflies, bumble bees ...

Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move like animals they must adopt a different method of transferring these pollen ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

For example, the mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and their animal pollinators (Figure 1) are very different from interactions between acacia trees and the ants that inhabit and ...