Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

Pollinators is a broad term that includes all animals that transfer pollen, which contains DNA, from one flower to another. The most well-known pollinators are European honeybees, but pollinators also ...

A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower in ...

If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be wondering how to pollinate tomatoes effectively – especially when nature isn't doing the job. While tomato flowers are ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

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Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...