Learn about the differences between male and female cucumber flowers to help boost pollination and produce a healthy harvest of these vining fruits.

Hummingbird pollination helped pineapples and other bromeliads evolve into one of the world's most diverse plant families.

There’s something quietly alarming about a garden full of lush, flowering squash and cucumber vines that produces almost no ...

The warblers—those harbingers of spring in the U.K.—have an unappreciated talent of a different sort. Common U.K. birds, ...

Plants existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers bloomed. But when flowering plants did evolve, more than 140 million years ago, they were a huge evolutionary success ...

Bees aren’t the only insects pollinating red clover. Moths do about a third of the flower visits after dark, new research suggests. The findings, detailed in the July Biology Letters, come as a ...

Growing bigger, better-shaped strawberries starts with better pollination. One easy-to-grow companion plant can help bring ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heiko119 / Getty Images Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are ...