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 ...

Blueberry cultivation relies heavily on insect-mediated pollination to achieve optimal fruit set, size and quality. The specialised floral architecture of Vaccinium spp., characterised by urn-shaped ...

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.

In the last few weeks of March I watched some very busy bees visiting flowers of the native highbush blueberry bush planted just outside my home office window. They also visited the hybrid rabbiteye ...

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, ...

A horticulture explainer details why single fruiting plants often underperform and outlines species-specific pollination ...

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Bees from a single species aren't as effective in pollinating as bees from a diversity of species, a new study shows. © Romulic-Stojcic/Lumi Images/Corbis The world ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's wild blueberry crop is likely to be much smaller this year than in recent summers because the industry is contending with troubles such as disease and a lack of ...

According to the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine, total input costs increased by roughly 78% over a “recent 3-year period, ...

Researchers have found that honeybees are effective blueberry pollinators. Dr Keanu Martin Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree, you’re probably witnessing pollination in action.

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 ...