A self-pollinating nonpareil could mean less need for bees and greater production for the most popular variety of nut.

Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

While many trees are assisted by pollinators like bees and butterflies, some trees are self-pollinating - this includes pomegranate trees. But, what exactly does this mean? And what do you need to ...

Honeybees along with 1,500 other insect species pollinate plants in the UK. Self-pollination: The pollen grain lands on the same flower it originated from. Cross-pollination: The pollen grain ...

"The movement of the stigma appendage represents, to the best of our knowledge, a novel self-pollination mechanism in orchids," the Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji writes in his paper now ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...

Ivy: Well, these pests are bothering my lovely flowers! Posey: They're pollinating them! It's important. Ivy: Are you sure? It looks like they're just headbutting them. Posey: That's because the ...

His findings, published in Plants, People, Planet, reveal that the plants predominantly self-pollinate, that is, they don't rely on insects to transfer pollen from other plants, and that they so ...

These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...