While it's nice to blanket your garden with pollinator-friendly plants, the pollen carriers may still give your place a miss. Not out of chagrin or unfounded enmity, but because it got too cold, or ...

Many flowering plants prevent inbreeding and increase genetic diversity by a process called self-incompatibility, in which pollination fails to set seed if the pollen is identified as its own by the ...

In nature, plant species having the same pollinators experience 'reproductive interference' owing to competition, and their coexistence is thought to be possible only through resource partitioning.