Pollination is the first step of flowering plant reproduction: pollen moves from male flower parts to female flower parts, to fertilize the ovule and produce seeds.

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among ...

The male parts are called stamens ... Most plants use cross pollination. Insects can pollinate flowers, and so can the wind. Insect-pollinated flowers are different in structure from wind ...

It's called buzz pollination, and it works like a charm ... Match the right animal and plant parts—long tongue poked into narrow tube, furry face pressed into sticky brush—and pollen is ...

Some plants can pollinate themselves because they have both male and female parts. While many plants have both male and ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into ...

This will start a new plant. Ivy: So it can create new plants on its own? You're exploding my mind. This film explores the process of pollination and the roles different parts of a plant play.

which they then carry to the next flower. This pollination style is far from efficient. They eat their way through petals and ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...