Melon production relies on effective pollination, with honeybees and native bees playing a critical role in moving the heavy ...

Many farmers rent bee hives to pollinate crops, but they could tap into the free labor of wild bees by adopting an as-needed approach to pesticides, a new proof-of-concept study shows. A multiyear ...

The research required painstaking work. Kremen and Williams first put fine mesh bags on watermelon flower buds, so that when the flowers opened they had no pollen. They then removed the bags, put the ...

They focused on watermelon because it requires a lot of pollen and multiple bee visits to produce marketable fruit. The research required painstaking work. Kremen and Williams first put fine mesh bags ...