Sentences with word «pollination»

This kind of pollination of different people, the mobility that is taking place is a positive thing that is affecting culture.

Gary Rulison of the Rulison Honey Farms shows the bees to be used for pollination of the Indian Ladder apple orchard in Altamont, N.Y. April 18, 2012.

Project leader, Mburu Waiganjo told us «What makes me personally proud is the fact that our project has reversed a forest degradation trend and the «don't care» attitude towards the forest conservation that had prevailed has now gone and yielded the current lush green forest that is teeming with wildlife noises from the birds, the beauty of the butterflies and other insects which are evidently useful in pollination of crops in the forest - adjacent farms.

More importantly, the industry needs these bees to meet the growing demand for pollination services.

If you want to save seed, then you would need to isolate the plants by placing cheesecloth over some of the flowers to prevent cross pollination by insects.

Non-bee pollinators make up approximately 1 / 3rd of crop pollination services.

About three - quarters of global crop species, from apples to almonds, rely on pollination by bees and other insects.

From tomatoes to pumpkins, most fruit and vegetable crops rely on pollination by bees and other insect species — and the future of many of those species is uncertain.

This is a much better idea than we've ever come up for stimulating honey bee pollination in this country.

Last fall, Monsanto quietly acquired Beelogics, «an international firm dedicated to restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect pollination.

«The evidence is overwhelming that hundreds of the native bees we depend on for ecosystem stability, as well as pollination services worth billions of dollars, are spiraling toward extinction,» says Kelsey Kopec, a native pollinator researcher at the Center and author of the study.

With pollination responsible for one - third of our food supply, the loss of 30 % of our bee population prompted the Pollinator Protection Campaign by the Sierra Club.

Patience Fruit & Co.'s cranberry growers nurture honeybees for their vital role in flower pollination.

Future research will demonstrate the importance of safe sites for plant pollination under field conditions.

Perhaps learning from the excesses of Happy Feet, the creative minds behind this film make every effort to keep the action and tone light and frothy, even when dealing with such serious issues as bee cruelty and the potential end of human civilization without the important floral pollination process that bees provide.

Honey bees provide ecosystem services through pollination of crops worth $ 215 billion annually worldwide.

Cross pollination only affects subsequent generations, not the current pods on the plants.

The researchers then went back to analyze historical data on E. foeminea's pollination periods in previous years and compared them with lunar cycles from the same year.

Because buzz pollination requires a complex set of behaviours, Dr Whitehorn wanted to find out whether it was affected by neonicotinoids.

On top of that, during huge crop pollination events such as the almond bloom, around 1.5 million hives from around the country converge in California, creating near - perfect conditions for transmitting diseases.

More than 94 percent of flowering tropical plants and 75 percent of the world's leading food crops require pollination by animals such as bees, bats and hummingbirds.

According to the CEO of COCOBOD, Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, in a time where the world market price of Cocoa is fluctuating, the hand pollination program will «compensate for the fall in price», as the program will...

The study's authors say more research now needs to be carried out into how different bees» ecological traits affect pollination.

CPI noted that in their trials, Bhut Jolokia never produced fruits without artificial pollination in the greenhouse, and little pollen was produced (which means their flowers might need a little help with a fine brush indoors — insects, especially bees, can be helpful as well).

These collaborations really do speak to this sense of cross pollination between music and art.

But Muchhala, a postdoc in the lab of pollination biologist James Thomson, thought it was the hummingbirds that looked wasteful.

«This shows that the interaction between orchids and pollinating males is even more fine - tuned than previously known,» says Andreas Erhardt, who studies orchid pollination at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Until recently, scientists thought that A. elatior has the most unusual pollination ecology among all flowering plants, being pollinated by slugs and amphipods.

Biodiversity increases the services that nature provides like pollination and improves the ability of farming systems to adapt to changing conditions.

The nuts themselves grow on the trees in husks, then fall out when ripe, about 7 - 8 months after pollination.

Ecotoxicologist James Cresswell, who studies pollination at the University of Exeter, UK, says that «one can still equivocate over the evidence» because many of the lab studies that have shown harm may have fed bees unrealistically high doses of neonicotinoids.

While most gymnosperms depend on wind pollination, cycads long ago evolved a relationship with beetles.

The colonies began their journey in Florida and moved up the East Coast, providing pollination services for different crops along the way.

Most Penstemon species that display the hummingbird pollination syndrome, such as Penstemon utahensis shown here, represent independent evolutionary origins of this phenotype.

Thrive is a collaborative program conducted by Teakoe Tea, Urban Pollination Project & Madhava Natural Sweeteners.

Not only does the strawberry farm offer up some delicious snacks and fun outdoors, but it's a great opportunity to learn a bit of science and talk about pollination.

Although researchers have suspected for decades that such electrical fields aid pollination by helping the tiny grains stick to insects visiting a flower, only more recently have they investigated how insects sense and respond to such fields.

Brisbane - based artist Michael Candy has proposed a method of artificial pollination using 3D - printed robotic flowers, in a bid to help increase the dwindling bee population.

Red Hat growers use natural predators — or «good bugs» — to combat pests, and bumblebees are used in all tomato greenhouses for natural pollination.

Because Virginia wildrye is wind - pollinated, much of the pollen fails to reach its target and thus quite a lot is needed to assure adequate pollination occurs, Rudgers says.

The second place prize went to YT AG, a system for monitoring the health of bee hives used by the commercial pollination industry that ambitiously includes hardware, software and a premium AI component.

Plants that require animal pollination contribute 98 percent of the total vitamin C supplied by major global crops, 70 percent of vitamin A, 55 percent of folic acid and 74 percent of lipids.

No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.»

Garrido was working in the mountains of El Bierzo in northern Spain on a Saturday afternoon, collecting fruit to measure pollination success.

After controlling for fluctuations in temperature and precipitation, the team found that 2014 was not an anomaly: The shrub appeared to be consistently entering its weeklong pollination phase on the night of the full moon in July.

Her international background has fostered a life - long interest in cross-cultural pollination, and a unique perspective on the various idioms of art.

The effects of temperature on rice pollination have been studied in detail in the Philippines.