Flowers add beauty and charm to any garden, but they also attract various insects that can cause significant damage. As a passionate gardener, I’ve encountered many pests that feast on my beloved ...

Hoverflies can carry pollen over greater distances than bees and pollinate many plants that grow in your garden or yard. Look ...

Insect-slapping flower stamens maximize pollination Flowers with mobile stamens enhance pollination by encouraging faster insect turnover Date: October 11, 2022 ...

In other cases, flowers just pollinate themselves. But many species have evolved to get insects and other animals to do the work for them. The relationship between plants and their pollinators is an ...

Experiments found that moths were unable or hardly had the capability to smell certain flowers covered with the chemicals. Jeremy Chan “The NO3 is really reducing a flower’s ‘reach ...

As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, beneficial insects, and pollinators to visit your gardens.

Flowers can also evolve highly specialized relationships with specific pollinators, thus influencing how insects make their choices. Some flowers, like dandelions, have their pollen in plain sight ...

Across the globe, bees and other important pollinators are in trouble. Their numbers are declining, and that’s bad news for ...

This popular flower is an insect's worst enemy. In fact, a chrysanthemum's hit list is extensive and includes roaches, ants, silverfish, lice, bed bugs and mites.

I n the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I ...

For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue touches the nectar-producing parts of certain flowers, the pollen-containing stamen snaps forward. The new study proves ...