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When the drone moved more slowly, the researchers found an 87% success rate. That, along with the pollination of the real pear flowers, indicated that a drone with a soap bubble maker could ...

Robotic pollen collector A drone that can pollinate flowers may one day work side by side with bees to improve crop yields. About three-quarters of global crop species, from apples to almonds ...

Japanese researcher, Eijiro Miyako has created a prototype of a bio-inspired drone that he hopes will artificially pollinate plants and bolster pollination despite a declining bee population.

The long-term goal is to help growers use both native and managed bees to provide reliable and economical crop pollination, but this research also highlights our basic philosophy that conservation and ...

Photo: Wenying Wu; Illustration: Mary Parrish/National Museum of Natural History. Fossils indicate that before flowers evolved about 130 million years ago, most plants with seeds were wind-pollinated.

An illustration of what all honey bees, and a colony of honey bees, do for us in the UK each year. However, pollination is from all invertebrates, of which honey bees are a significant contributor ...

Stewart and Lynda Resnick’s Wonderful Co. is among a handful of honey bee farms responsible for the pollination of a third of Americans’ food. But the real buzz is how they rent them out.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is ...

Other technology is attempting to pollinate entirely through machines. In 2018, researchers at Sweden's Uppsala University created a micro-robot to complete a type of pollination required for over ...