In the 18th and 19th centuries, vanilla from Mexic...  ...d produced those fruits himself, he said, by hand- pollination .The 12-year-old’s technique worked, and he...  ...ps and downs. Read about the discovery of vanilla pollination and find out what happened to Edmond at National...

There aren't enough honeybees in the wild to polli...  ...icultural areas that need them during each crop's pollination season. That means shipping hives in big trucks,...

A rare species of lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium fargesii) grows black spots that look like a fungus. But it's not a fungus; it's a feature, as Zong-Xin Ren of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found out during four ye...