Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

If you are growing cucumber plants that are flowering but not producing any fruit, the issue may be pollination -- or a lack thereof. In most gardens, bees and other insects pollinate plants naturally ...

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 ...

Seed saving can be as easy or elaborate as you want to make it. By saving your own seed you can cut costs, preserve that ...

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana plans to introduce hand pollination of cocoa seedlings and will begin irrigating farms as part of plans by the world's second largest grower to boost production to 1 million ...

If you’ve nursed your cucumber plant into a large, leafy vine, it can be disappointing and confusing when it hardly produces any fruit. Learning about the difference between male vs female cucumber ...

Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I analyse the effects of habitat fragmentation on the pollination success of a perennial, butterfly-pollinated, caryophyllaceous herb, the ...