Male flowers outnumber female ones by about 3.5 to one to 10 to one. This helps ensure pollination of the female flowers which must be pollinated to set fruit.

Background · The Flower and the Fruit · Managing Bees for Pollination · Other Pollinating Bees · Establishing a Bee Pasture · Crop Pollination Requirements ...

If you need honey bees for pollination, you may want to keep your own bees. However, maintaining large numbers of robust hives year-round is hard work and ...

Cross-pollination is the transfer of pollen among different plants or varieties of the same species. This process increases fruit yield and, often, the size of ...

Crop Pollination Requirements. Apple: Most apple cultivars are self-sterile and require cross-pollination with another compatible cul- tivar. For this reason ...

Many crops benefit from pollination, and honey bees aren't the only pollinators! Learn about the benefits of insect pollination. ... Not every bug is a bad bug!

One way is to improve bee nutrition (ultimately, increasing their populations) by planting or encouraging more-or-less permanent bee pasture near the crop of ...