Bee with pollen baskets

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are the most important pollinators of many cultivated food crops and other flowering plants. These plants...

Flowering plants need to get pollen from one flower to another, either within a plant for self-pollination or between plants...

University of Otago geneticist Peter Dearden is using the bee genome to develop a bee-friendly insecticide.

Plant & Food Research is investigating whether bumblebees can be used to pollinate flowers in commercial orchards.