pollination

To illustrate how essential bee pollination is to our food supply, Mr. Hanson deconstructs a Big Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Pesticides applied to reduce the insects feeding on crops – is some what ironically – responsible for harming a group of animals responsible for their pollination.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Teller’s bees were used for pollinating crops such as almonds on farms, and he also rescued bees before rehabilitating them and later renting them out for pollination.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Amid a global biodiversity crisis, birds -- which play a vital role in pollination, seed dispersal and controlling insect populations -- are one of the fastest declining groups.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

She doesn't want to talk about chiropterophily, which is the pollination of plants by bats.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.

From Time Magazine Archive

To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.

From Time Magazine Archive

The number of nuts collected at the time of harvesting compared with the number of female flowers pollinated was taken as a measure of how successful the pollinations were.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Considerable effort has been expended in the prosecution of this project, but up to the present time we have recorded no successful pollinations.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by A. W. Latham

Without going into details, the general purpose of the pollinations during these last two years has been to incorporate more and more of the resistant Chinese stock into our hybrids.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association