Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

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 ...

Flowers have bright colours, smells and nectar which encourage pollinators to pay them a visit. Honeybees along with 1,500 other insect species pollinate plants in the UK. Self-pollination ...

Pomegranate trees are considered a self-pollinating species of fruit trees since they do not require a second, nearby tree to pollinate,' says David Burrows, plant pollination expert at Arkearth.

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because they are both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...

In contrast, some hermaphroditic plant species are self-compatible and also capable of self-pollination, so they can make seeds whether or not their flowers are visited by pollinators. The ...

Researchers have discovered a new global threat to pollination - artificial light at night, which was found to reduce visits of nocturnal pollinators to flowers by 62%. The impact of this is a ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...