pollination

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

Orr emphasized that maintaining healthy bee populations is essential for successful pollination.

From Science Daily ● 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

Although farmers in Riverside County should be able to turn to other companies to rent their honeybees for pollination needs, Teller anticipates downstream effects for bee removal customers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Every day I took it outside for a few minutes to expose it to the bees for pollination.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

In 1903 and succeeding years the writer made many careful pollinations of the native chestnut and the bush chinquapin with European and Japanese chestnuts in many varieties.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association

This is the procedure ordinarily used for our controlled pollinations.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Considerable effort has been expended in the prosecution of this project, but up to the present time we have recorded no successful pollinations.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by A. W. Latham