Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Musat / Getty Images Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in ...

Your towering tomato plants full of pretty yellow flowers are refusing to produce any fruit. The solution may be sitting ...

Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

If your cucumbers are flowering but not producing fruit, your yard might lack beneficial pollinators. Here's how to pollinate ...

Why do some plants produce small and unattractive flowers? Two Montreal researchers think they've figured out why, supporting a hypothesis dating back 150 years to Charles Darwin. People often thing ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...

A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower in ...

Honeybees are indispensable to commercial crop pollination, but simply putting hives in an orchard does not guarantee results ...

Life is not always easy for a bee: Not all plants place their pollen outside. Some flowers have to be set to vibrating before the pollen can get out of their tube-like stamens. Certain bee species ...

Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. Despite a greater diversity of flying insects in the countryside, more bees in cities pollinated more flowers of test plants. The ...

Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...