Pollen rubs off onto the bird's head as it feeds and is thereby transported from flower to flower. The honeybee is one of the goldenrod's best customers, collecting its pollen for protein and its ...

When pollinators land on a flower, they're on a mission: They're looking for sweet nectar to eat and specks of nutritious ...

Self-pollination: The pollen grain lands on the same flower it originated from. Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move ...

Pollen blasts from Hypenea macrantha flowers knock competitors’ pollen off hummingbird beaks To see if the projectile pollen blew away the competition, evolutionary ecologist Bruce Anderson and ...

Without flowers, many plants would not be able to reproduce, and many insects would not be able to get enough protein or carbohydrates to survive. Pollination takes place when pollen lands on the ...

But what is pollen? Pollen is the male reproductive tissue of many plants, including some trees, flowers, and grasses in New Mexico. Pollen grains range in size, and smaller pollen tends to spread ...