Every fig is, in biological terms, a flower turned inside out. The actual blossoms are hidden inside the fleshy receptacle, ...

Washington produces more blueberries than any other U.S. state, but farmers sometimes struggle to obtain honey bees to ...

Polly, the pollination robot, uses advanced cameras and image recognition to analyze individual flowers and identify those ready for pollination.

Although bees are among the best-known pollinators, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths, wasps, birds and even lizards also ...

Walk through a mustard field in Rajasthan in February and the hum you hear is not all honeybee. Look closer at the yellow ...

Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

A study of the wild Mexican tomatillo Physalis gracilis found the species is completely self-incompatible, shows no pollen ...

Biobest has announced the market introduction of Polly, a pollination robot designed for tomato growers. The launch follows five years of close collaboration between Biobest and Arugga ...

The economic value of insect pollinators was $34 billion in the U.S. in 2012, much higher than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.

Tomato flowers require vibrational stimulation for pollen release, but natural pollination is often limited in greenhouse ...

A literature review found documented pollinators for 98 of 1,231 orchid taxa reported in Guatemala, with most species still ...