pollinate

• “Since we rely on bees to pollinate about one-third of our food base, the loss would reduce availability of those foods and increase prices.”

  The Washington Post: New research on honeybee illness

• “It is specifically because I’m a carrier of raconteur’s disease, in its most virulent form, that I have come to realize that one can never really cross-pollinate the act of live storytelling with its literary reflection.”

  An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck

• “I wish there were more "summit" events like this that cross-pollinate the sf/fantasy art and literary world with the world-at-large.”

  MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other?

• “This would seem a trifling amount considering honey bees pollinate the majority of our fruits and vegetables and have been experiencing serious population decline.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork

• “From the one came the many, begot or pollinate by inspiration or its lack: Alamo RentaCar begat AlamoDome begat Alamo Frozen Burrito which in turn was father to Alamo Bowlarama.”

  Fictionaut: Alamo Rag

• “As a rule, beans pollinate themselves so you don't have to worry about unwanted hybrids, courtesy of an earnest bee.”

  The Washington Post: Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried

• “To pollinate most plum trees, bees are released into a covering wood and plastic structure, along with pollen-bearing bouquets from other plum or apricot trees.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Apricot Met Plum...

• “However, it needs the support, both of the local environment and of the government institutions, to take root and pollinate other would-be innovators.”

  The Huffington Post: Muhammad H. Zaman: Engineering a Healthy Tomorrow for the Poorest Billion

• “To attract male wasps to pollinate them, the orchids not only look like an insect Marilyn Monroe, they exude a fragrance even more bewitching than the real sexual attractant of the females they're mimicking.”

  The Huffington Post: Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature

• “Honeybees have “flower memory” and remember exactly where they already have been to pollinate a flower.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Memory Palace

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