Key Points Cucumber plants need both male and female flowers for pollination and fruit production.Stress, poor weather, or lack of pollinators can cause flowers to drop and reduce ...

Pollination should be recognised as essential agricultural infrastructure rather than a niche environmental service if South ...

Study reveals extreme heat causes sharp drop with knock-on effect for pollination of food crops in following years ...

Why have some plant species changed pollinators in their evolution? An international team of researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou (China) studied ...

That bee you see buzzing from flower to flower might actually be an undercover operator: a hoverfly. And a team of scientists wants you to stop taking them for granted. The decline of bee populations ...

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Mid-90s temperatures and 3-day dry stretches expected during pollination could drop crop ratings 5-6%. El Nino pattern could ...

Artificial light disrupts nocturnal pollination and leads to a reduced number of fruits produced by the plant. This loss of night time pollination cannot be compensated by diurnal pollinators. The ...

Miniature drones are being used to pollinate indoor crops as part of research looking at alternatives to honey bee pollination. Singapore company Polybee is testing its drones at the University of ...

Researchers have discovered a new global threat to pollination - artificial light at night, which was found to reduce visits of nocturnal pollinators to flowers by 62%. The impact of this is a ...