Isabel Lucas

I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing!

Australian Actress

Richard P. Feynman

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

American Physicist

Helen Sharman

While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

British Scientist

Pollinators can be insects, birds, or other animals that move pollen between plants.

Agents of Pollination

Humans can also pollinate plants artificially when natural pollinators are unavailable.

Human Intervention

Pollination is crucial for the production of fruits, vegetables, and seeds that we eat.

Essential for Food

 Lever number humanity actually solved the problem of agricultural poverty a century ago. Let me walk you through the three most basic factors in farming. First, hybrid seed is created when you cross two seeds together. If you naturally pollinate a high-yielding variety together with a drought-resistant variety,

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 native bees they live in the ground or in wood but the most compelling characteristic for these native bees for me is their pollination ability and efficiency honey bees can't pollinate plants that require a buzz pollination like blueberries tomatoes eggplants and

How can we help bee...

 people are paid to do the business of pollination by hand. These people are moving pollen from flower to flower with a paintbrush. Now this business of hand pollination is actually not that uncommon. Tomato growers often pollinate their tomato flowers

Marla Spivak: Why bees...

 effective pollinators so they pollinate lots of fruits and vegetables we've invited a classroom full of BC kids to come down here and put on the bee veil and a bee suit for protection we'll open up beehives and get them into the hive

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 to deter its predator and as it does it sends signals down through its root Network warning the surrounding trees but as the giraffe eats it spreads seeds and can even pollinate the acacia scours in this evolutionary arms race every

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 is truly a magic moment. It's the mystical moment where life regenerates itself, over and over again. So here is some nectar from my film. I hope you'll drink, tweet and plant some seeds to pollinate a friendly garden.

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 Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens. They even pollinate fruits and vegetables, and help winemakers by biting into their grapes and jump-starting fermentation.

Licking bees and pulping...

 Pollinators include many species of bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, even birds and bats, who together help pollinate many species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants.

How bees help plants...

 Ah, well. So what if arthropods were the first to reach land and invent flight, a hundred million years before the rest of us? So what if they pollinate crops around the world,

How life came to land -...

 are so rare is there even a moths in the vicinity that could pollinate this there's a reason why it hasn't been documented before that's because it's really really difficult

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