When birds feed on nectar from flowers, they do more than just get a meal—they play a crucial role in pollination, ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

While modern trees like maples and ashes have switched to wind pollination — releasing clouds of pollen to be scattered at ...

So here goes. In a nutshell, pollination occurs when the pollen from the male part of the plant (the anther) moves to the female part of the plant (the pistil). Some flowers contain both male and ...

Abstract: For the shortcomings of the basic flower pollination algorithm, this paper proposes a differential evolution flower pollination algorithm with dynamic switch probability based on the Weibull ...

Onion Seed Production Impact: At the crack of dawn, Nitin Mulik (45), rushes to his two-acre holding, expecting swarms of ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

Dr. Gerardo Arceo-Gomez will give a talk on the complex relationships between plants and pollinators, exploring their role in ...

As a result, magnolias developed flowers for pollination by flightless beetles and flies as they were the primary insect pollinators 100 million years ago. It’s not one particular beetle species ...

A monoecious species with male and female flowers on the same individual (b). Figure 3c. A dioecious species with female and male flowers on separate individuals. Pollination, the movement of pollen ...