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 ...

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

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 ...

Pollinators is a broad term that includes all animals that transfer pollen, which contains DNA, from one flower to another. The most well-known pollinators are European honeybees, but pollinators also ...

Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...

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If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be wondering how to pollinate tomatoes effectively – especially when nature isn't doing the job. While tomato flowers are ...