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Once they enter these, the involuntary pollen carriers struggle to find an exit, which ensures that they will pollinate the flower, but they can't get a hold on the waxy interior and perish.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2024

Insects will be deprived of their nectar, leading to decrease in numbers; but flowering plants will not be affected, as other animals will pollinate them.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

But some of the pollen will find its way from one bloom to another, and thus the bees will pollinate the coneflowers.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2016

For corn, it means the crop will pollinate later in the summer, when hot, dry weather is more likely to cause damage.

From Reuters • May 20, 2013

I don't know anything that will pollinate it.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association