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 ...

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!

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

In some parts of the world, bumble bees are cultured in artificial nests and used for commercial pollination, but the rearing methods are often proprietary and ...