Pollination management

Pollination management is the planned use, support, and conservation of pollinators and pollination practices to improve crop pollination and yields.

Managed pollination: The deliberate deployment of pollinators to improve pollination in crops or other settings. It organizes pollinator placement and timing around a crop’s flowering period.
Pollination: The transfer of pollen from an anther to a receptive stigma. It is the biological process that pollination management aims to improve.
Pollinator: An animal that transfers pollen between flowers, enabling plant fertilization. Management may support wild pollinators as well as deployed species.
Crop yield: The quantity of harvested agricultural product produced per unit of land or other input. Improved pollination can raise yield or stabilize production in dependent crops.
Honey bee: A social bee species widely managed for honey production and crop pollination. Colonies are moved among farms to pollinate flowering crops.
Floral resource: Pollen and nectar supplied by flowers as food for pollinators. Continuous resources can sustain pollinators before and after crop bloom.
Pollination syndrome: A set of floral traits associated with adaptation to particular groups of pollinators. Flower traits indicate which pollinators may effectively serve a crop.
Crop quality: The traits that determine a harvested crop’s grade, marketability, or intended use. Pollination can influence fruit shape, size, and uniformity.
Bumblebee: A group of robust, social bees that pollinate wild plants and crops, including inside greenhouses. Their ability to forage in cool weather and buzz-pollinate suits some crops.
Flower constancy: A pollinator’s tendency to visit flowers of one plant species during a foraging bout. It can increase effective pollen transfer within a crop.

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