pollination

Deng conducted an experiment in China applying image recognition to strawberry pollination, work he said could theoretically cut the labor the crop demands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Fewer foraging trips could mean less food entering the hive, lower honey production, and reduced pollination of nearby plants.

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

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

Every day I took it outside for a few minutes to expose it to the bees for pollination.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

This arises in part from the relatively large number of the heads on the plants, and in part from the completeness of the pollinations, through the action of the honey bee.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw

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 1903 and succeeding years the writer made many careful pollinations of the native chestnut and the bush chinquapin with European and Japanese chestnuts in many varieties.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association