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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

Those don't sound like organisms that anybody actively wants to lure, but these bugs are helping to pollinate the plant.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

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

When the bees needed to pollinate, he’d gone to find a field of blooming flowers, and that’s where he met Fiona, who was sleeping among them.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

That’s catastrophic for the hard-working bee and the flowers it pollinates, such as goldenrods, and potentially crops of plants such as berries, alfalfa and soybeans.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

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

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

Also called the ajo lily, it grows from a deep bulb, has long, wavy-edged leaves and is pollinated by sphinx moths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

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

Through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

The farmers loved her bees, thanks to all the pollinating they did, how they made the watermelons redder and the cucumbers bigger.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd