0 present participle of pollinate --
1 to take pollen from one plant or part of a plant to another so that new plant seeds can be produced: --
Pollinating bees - the conservation link between agriculture and nature.
Thus, either self-pollination or cross-pollination can be found in olives, with wind being the main pollinating agent.
At a finer scale, among genera pollinating monoecious figs we found marked differences in flight behaviour (height and time-of-dispersal).
Pollination could be impaired in these fragments because isolation often negatively influences the dispersal of insects, the most important pollinating agents in the tropics.
Male euglossine bees collect fragrances produced by flowers for reasons not yet clearly understood, pollinating them during this process.
Protracted pre-emergence and emergence periods are undesirable when pollinating short-blooming crops such as fruit trees.
For the same reason, counting pollen grains on the pollinator's body does not provide a good indication of its pollinating ability.
Selfing was achieved by pollinating immature flower buds with pollen from open flowers of the same plant.
