DENVER — Honeybees may be the world’s most famous pollinator, but a new study shows that blueberry blooms reduce the insects to improvisational klutzes. Not useless ones though. Pollination ...
Most people know that bees of all kinds are extremely important pollinators. Honeybees and bumblebees, in particular, are the ones most people think about first when it comes to pollinating a garden.
When most people think about blueberry bushes (Vaccinium spp.), the fruit tends to get all of the attention. Yet the true magic of this shrub arrives well before any berries, when its early spring ...
Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree, you're probably witnessing pollination in action. Pollination is what enables a plant to produce seeds and fruit—and, as research has shown, ...
The LSU AgCenter will soon trumpet the newest additions to the Louisiana Super Plant list, and professor Allen Owings of the Hammond Research Station says they should be available in nurseries in the ...
Blueberry plants host diverse fungal communities on their aboveground tissues, yet how these communities shift across flower and fruit development has remained unclear. This study identifies how ...
AMHERST, Mass. - As New England's blueberry season approaches, University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral candidate Matt Boyer says a fungal pathogen of highbush blueberries known as mummy berry is ...
A person with blue long sleeves on holding a handful of blueberries with more still on the bush - Hispanolistic/Getty Images Most people know that bees of all kinds are extremely important pollinators ...