Those weather factors, along with rising temperatures and humidity levels, all play a part in the success of corn pollination, notes Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field agronomist. Despite the ...

Researchers uncover unique insect-plant relationship: ants and crickets pollinate and disperse Balanophora seeds.

The research team expects its findings to allow growers to maximize the pollination and biological pest control of these ...

A Waikato beekeeper has come full circle in what is an increasingly unpredictable business. Matt Crawford said limited ...

Based at Okauia, near Matamata, Matt and his wife Maxine run Golden Flow Apiaries which has about 1600 hives now chiefly ...

The relatively new industry has been challenged by wind-blown cross-pollination between neighboring hemp fields.

"Wolves were observed foraging for nectar on K. foliosa flowers, which deposited a relatively large amount of pollen on their ...

IN many crosses plant-breeders are confronted with one or more of the following problems : (1) the pollen grains may fail to germinate on a foreign stigma ; (2) if they germinate, the pollen tubes ...

Ants and camel crickets serve dual roles in both pollinating and dispersing seeds of Balanophora subcupularis, as discovered ...