pollination
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"If the entire colony was exposed, this could lead to decreased pollination effectiveness and reduced honey production, risking colony survival and long-term stability."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
The stench is important for pollination, said Brandon Tam, the Huntington’s associate curator of orchids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Unseasonal or unusually heavy rain or winds can impact pollination, he explains, and then durian trees typically need about a month of hot weather to flower, but cooler temperatures for harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Not to mention, the traditional seeds had been planted in a different pattern, and that may have influenced water distribution and pollination.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This is the procedure ordinarily used for our controlled pollinations.
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
If conveniences are at hand the work may be rapidly accomplished—several hundred pollinations being made in a single day by an active worker.
From The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus by Matthew Crawford
In 1947 we have made 58 combinations in which 213 branches were bagged; October 10-13 we gathered 380 hybrid nuts resulting from these cross pollinations.
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
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