pollination

Voters’ aversion to cross-category pollination has limited animated movies since the academy created the animated feature category in 2001.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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

They support an estimated 75% of global crop pollination, and nearly 90% of all flowering plants.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

The stench is important for pollination, said Brandon Tam, the Huntington’s associate curator of orchids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

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

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

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

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