AIMC Topic: Pollination

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Modified Global Flower Pollination Algorithm and its Application for Optimization Problems.

Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) has increasingly attracted researchers' attention in the computational intelligence field. This is due to its simplicity and efficiency in searching for global optimality of many optimization problems. However, ther...

Honey bee hairs and pollenkitt are essential for pollen capture and removal.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
While insect grooming has been observed and documented for over one hundred years, we present the first quantitative analysis of this highly dynamic process. Pollinating insects, like honey bees, purposely cover themselves with millions of pollen par...

Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea.

Emerging topics in life sciences
Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduc...