Agricultural crops such as fruits rely on honeybees for much of their pollination work, but in recent years, honeybee populations have declined globally due to the use of pesticides, other insect ...

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 ...

Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, researchers suggest. Rising temperatures have substantially reduced cocoa ...

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Drones can be effective pollinators in controlled environments, but they are not equipped to replace the work of bees in natural systems. (Pixabay, Pexels) In towering glasshouses at a tomato farm in ...

Farmers from Australia to the UK are using drones to pollinate food crops like tomatoes, but can technology ever replace bees? — AFP TWO WELLS, Australia/MERU NATIONAL PARK, Kenya: In towering ...

When Paul and Maria Bidwell's children flew-the-coop from their Western Australian avocado orchard, the enterprising couple decided to downsize and move to Tasmania. While growing avocado trees in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Little is known about the impact of birds, mammals and reptiles on pollinating plants. Bronwyn Ayre’s ...

The article highlighted the significance of flowers and focused on various scentless blooms like scarlet gilia, sunflower, dahlia, and hibiscus. It explained reasons why some flowers lack fragrance, ...