pollination

Examples of pollinating

pollinating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The absence of other major pollinating species in this system is likely to cause competition among plants to attract the same visitors.
However, some insects are beneficial and have a role in pollinating flowers, thus enabling fruit set.
Two other factors contributing to the pollinating capacity of a pollinator species are flower fidelity and foraging activity thresholds.
The wasps are deceived into pollinating the inflorescences on female plants, but fail to reproduce.
The eventual establishment of any new pollinator depends on its pollinating performance, sustainability, and manageability, as well as on its economic cost.
Selfing was achieved by pollinating immature flower buds with pollen from open flowers of the same plant.
For the same reason, counting pollen grains on the pollinator's body does not provide a good indication of its pollinating ability.
Protracted pre-emergence and emergence periods are undesirable when pollinating short-blooming crops such as fruit trees.
Male euglossine bees collect fragrances produced by flowers for reasons not yet clearly understood, pollinating them during this process.
Pollination could be impaired in these fragments because isolation often negatively influences the dispersal of insects, the most important pollinating agents in the tropics.
At a finer scale, among genera pollinating monoecious figs we found marked differences in flight behaviour (height and time-of-dispersal).
Thus, either self-pollination or cross-pollination can be found in olives, with wind being the main pollinating agent.
Pollinating bees - the conservation link between agriculture and nature.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.