pollination
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 009TreesAlmond: The Blossom That Moves the World's Bees
A stone fruit grown for its seed, whose vast Californian orchards depend on trucking most of the honeybees in North America to one place for two weeks each spring.
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№ 017TreesApples and Pears: The Pome Fruits
Pollination groups, rootstock choice, disease-resistant varieties, and why the tree you buy is always a clone on borrowed roots.
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№ 093EcologyCoevolution: The Long Dance of Species That Shape Each Other
When two species become each other's environment, they evolve in response to one another — driving the exquisite partnerships of flower and pollinator, and the endless arms races of predator and prey, plant and pest.
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№ 108TreesCrab Apple: The Pollinator Every Orchard Needs
A wild apple that flowers long and pollinates almost everything, plus the pectin that sets every other jelly.
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№ 218WildlifeHoneybees and Beekeeping: The Managed Pollinator
The one bee in twenty thousand that lives in a hive and makes honey — a managed superorganism rented out to pollinate crops, threatened by mites and poisons, and not the whole answer to the pollination it is asked to provide.
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№ 222WildlifeHoverflies: Pollinator and Pest Controller in One
How hoverflies deliver both pollination and aphid control in one insect family, and why flat-topped umbellifer flowers pull them in.
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№ 477CropsSweetcorn: Plant in a Block, Not a Row
Wind-pollinated maize needs a block to fill its cobs, why sugar turns to starch within hours, and the varieties that must not cross.
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