pollination
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To illustrate how essential bee pollination is to our food supply, Mr. Hanson deconstructs a Big Mac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Pesticides applied to reduce the insects feeding on crops – is some what ironically – responsible for harming a group of animals responsible for their pollination.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
For Odora and Odorysseus, siblings from a 2002 pollination, a double bloom is unlikely, Tam said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Unseasonal or unusually heavy rain or winds can impact pollination, he explains, and then durian trees typically need about a month of hot weather to flower, but cooler temperatures for harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
She doesn't want to talk about chiropterophily, which is the pollination of plants by bats.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without going into details, the general purpose of the pollinations during these last two years has been to incorporate more and more of the resistant Chinese stock into our hybrids.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
This arises in part from the relatively large number of the heads on the plants, and in part from the completeness of the pollinations, through the action of the honey bee.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
Considerable effort has been expended in the prosecution of this project, but up to the present time we have recorded no successful pollinations.
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Ecology - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Introductory
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