Key Points Cucumber plants need both male and female flowers for pollination and fruit production.Stress, poor weather, or lack of pollinators can cause flowers to drop and reduce ...

Pollination should be recognised as essential agricultural infrastructure rather than a niche environmental service if South ...

Study reveals extreme heat causes sharp drop with knock-on effect for pollination of food crops in following years ...

Why have some plant species changed pollinators in their evolution? An international team of researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou (China) studied ...

Mid-90s temperatures and 3-day dry stretches expected during pollination could drop crop ratings 5-6%. El Nino pattern could ...

"Artificial light affects plant pollination even during the daytime." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 03 / 210317111751.htm (accessed June 25, 2026).

That bee you see buzzing from flower to flower might actually be an undercover operator: a hoverfly. And a team of scientists wants you to stop taking them for granted. The decline of bee populations ...

The Hidden Role of Bats in Pollination That Keeps Many Plants and Crops Thriving: Bats are often misunderstood, yet they play ...

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 ...

Why have some plant species changed pollinators in their evolution? An international team of researchers studied the reproductive systems of three sister species pairs, where one species is pollinated ...