A recent study investigates the role of sonic vibrations in improving pollination efficiency and fruit size in tomatoes. By simulating bee-like vibrations using non-contact sonication technology, the ...

Tomato plants can look healthy yet produce no fruit. Often, the problem isn’t fertilizer or sunlight — it’s pollination. These four simple hand-pollination methods help transfer pollen when wind and ...

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Give your plants a helping hand.

Given our general reliance on something called “food” you’d think the issue of pollination — and its general decline — might be higher up the world’s agenda. Over 80% of crops require insect ...

Visiting South Korean journalists, including Jin-ju Lee, front, guide floating cranberries toward a conveyor last fall during a tour of the growing and harvesting operations of the Cranmoor Cranberry ...

If you want to keep enjoying apples, melons and blueberries, bees need to be healthy and cared for. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature's most ...