This common bathroom item can help hand-pollinate plants like tomatoes, boosting yields when natural pollination falls short.

Life is not always easy for a bee: Not all plants place their pollen outside. Some flowers have to be set to vibrating before the pollen can get out of their tube-like stamens. Certain bee species ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully used a tiny drone to pollinate an actual flower, a task usually accomplished by insects and animals. The remote-controlled drone was equipped with horsehairs ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant ...

Two-year initiative led by AgriSound and Hutton Scientific Services will combine bioacoustic sensors, AI analytics, ...

Sustainability Commission members, city officials and residents celebrated the completion of Elgin’s first pollination garden ...

Most people assume plants reproduce through whatever pollen happens to land on them. This is not true. A collaborative ...

They may be small, but bees and other insects play a critical role in pollination and maintaining a natural balance in our environment. The short term solution could lie with drones. Eijiro Miyako ...