Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heiko119 / Getty Images Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are ...

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You truck in in 40 billion bees. Central California is the biggest orchard in the world and almonds are one of its main crops. There are 40 million trees here with 20,000 flowers each, meaning there ...

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Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. I was wondering if you could provide me with a list of which fruit ...

With several days worth of very high daytime temps, the coffee shop talk concerns the impact of the hot, dry conditions on the corn crop. One method to determine whether drought-stressed corn plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / Curly_photo Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly ...