These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...

Life can’t function without insects. At least, not for long. They pollinate, break down waste, cycle nutrients, and touch ...

Pollination refers to pollen being transferred from the male part of a flower to the female part. Even the easiest fruit trees to grow need this process to produce their delicious fruit.

In this way, variations in the chemistry of floral scent can function much as geographic isolation does in the creation of new species, by preventing new mutant flowers from being pollinated by ...

The study illustrates how the interplay between plant traits and bee behaviors can shape pollinator communities.

Once the pollination is complete ... You might have heard stories of flowers being named after noteworthy people. In reality, the process of creating that flower started many years before it ...

The University of Exeter said it partnered with Cornwall Council and civil engineering firm Cormac for the project Planting flowers in urban ... boosted numbers" of pollinating insects, new ...

The European honeybee is also being badly affected ... "Bees have been pollinating fine for millions of years mainly for free, except for the bribery offered by the flowers in the form of nectar ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...