It is hard to believe that July is almost over. Corn has been tasseling and the ear leaf is starting to poke its head out. With that in mind, Peter Thomison, OSU Extension corn specialist, provides ...

Read up into the basics of flower pollination — there's more to it than meets the eye! Plus, find flowers to grow in your ...

A new humanoid robot designed to support crop breeding has been unveiled in Beijing, ...

A team of Japanese researchers have succeeded in using a pocket-sized drone to pollinate a flower, taking the first steps towards creating a safety net for the world’s flora as honeybees continue to ...

Given our general reliance on something called “food” you’d think the issue of pollination — and its general decline — might be higher up the world’s agenda. Over 80% of crops require insect ...

Flies play an important role as pollinators and should no longer be neglected in pollination studies, according to a new study led by University of Bristol researchers, published in the Proceedings of ...

A third of humans’ diet, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is reliant on plants pollinated by insects. And bees do most of that work. But honeybees are in peril.

The Saudi farmer has been overcoming challenges in his bid to save the profession of “pollinating palms” over the past several years. Though the introduction of modern technologies and the influx of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...