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The plants are inclined to bloom out of sequence, “because they want to pollinate another plant that’s in the vicinity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

While some bee-keepers aim only to produce honey, many others rent out their hives to farmers who need the insects to pollinate their crops.

From BBC ● May 31, 2025

Insects are essential members of the web of life that pollinate many flowering plants, serve as a food source for birds and animals, and perform other important ecological services.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

The discovery of a unique case where the same insect species both pollinate a plant and distribute its seeds not only solves a long-standing botanical mystery.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

A third advantage of the Fertile Crescent flora is that it includes a high percentage of hermaphroditic “selfers”—that is, plants that usually pollinate themselves but that are occasionally cross-pollinated.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

While in orchids the length of the flower tube closely matches the length of the pollinating insect mouthparts, the island wasp has much shorter mouthparts than the bumblebee that pollinates Goodyera henryi on the mainland.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023

The tequila bat feeds on the flowers of the agave—a kind of succulent—and pollinates them.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

It self pollinates as it has both male and female flowers and the opening and closing of doors in the palm house is enough passage of air for this to happen.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021

They have devoted a plot to 90 experimental varieties bred by Cliff Ambers, an iconoclastic viticulturist who pollinates native grape vines with pollen from European vinifera varieties.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2019

The Carpathian "D", apparently, pollinates the Crath No. 1 well.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association

It has been found that more than 85% of plant species are insect pollinated but 40% of insect species are at risk of extinction.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024

Over the decades, that seed has grown into a wild and unruly tangle of misinformation and hysteria, amply pollinated by social media, wellness influencers, and a lack of science literacy.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2024

Many of the pollinated flowers lead to the fruits and vegetables that humans and other animals depend upon.

From NewsForKids.net ● May 13, 2024

Researcher Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo discovered that two species in the genus Angelica are pollinated primarily by hornets.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024

Some mutant individuals developed fruit without even having to be pollinated, resulting in our seedless bananas, grapes, oranges, and pineapples.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

They filled with blossoms as usual this spring, so Shafer rented about 100 beehives and the bees went to work pollinating.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Farmers pay Funkhouser to truck his bees across the country -- as far as the almond fields of California -- where they spend around two weeks pollinating crops.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

Honeybees are a vital part of food production and contribute to pollinating 70% of leading global crops.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

They are also, not incidentally, highly useful to human society, producing honey and beeswax — both of which are used in a wide range of products — while also pollinating the plants that feed us.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

Now clean cultivation and the chemical destruction of hedgerows and weeds are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and breaking the threads that bind life to life.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson