1.   Insects pollinate them, birds and animals carry their seeds in their guts and on their fur and feathers.

2.   Various insects pollinate the flowers.

3.   Foreign genes introduced into crops pollinated by insects may quickly spread to related wild varieties, US biologists have concluded.

4.   Ellstrand estimated that up to a third of all crop varieties are pollinated by insects.

5.   At the same time, beekeepers can get paid for having their insects pollinate a host of crops, primarily almonds.

6.   In varieties of milkweed known to be pollinated by insects, the groove catches on a small appendage on an insect body.

7.   Morning glories, originally from a tropical climate, are pollinated by insects that are active early in the morning.

8.   Or that it must be pollinated by insects in seven stages?

9.   Alastair Fitter said he and his father found that plants pollinated by insects shifted their first flowering date more radically than those that are wind-pollinated.

10.   Beekeepers now struggle to rebuild their colonies, while farmers who rely on the insects to pollinate their crops have difficulty finding available hives to place in their fields.