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 ...

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

This beautiful little insect is a webworm moth named Ailanthus Moth. It has a flower design on its outer wings. It is native to North America but is now associated with a tree brought to America ...

Fall-blooming asters have small heads, 1-2 inches in diameter, with white or bluish rays and usually a yellow center, according to Hamilton. The tiny-flowered disk furnishes nectar to visiting ...

Same Flower Chemicals Tell Some Insects "This Bud's For You," But Deter Others With Toxic Warning, Cornell Scientists Discover. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com ...

The buzz and the bees: Flowers use electrical fields to communicate with insects… with voltage indicating pollen levels. Flowers use electrical signals which work alongside their physical attributes ...

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 ...

When some insects zero in on a flower for nectar, their ultraviolet vision is guided by a bull's-eye "painted" on the plant by chemical compounds. Now, chemical ecologists at Cornell University ...

The researchers did two separate counts. The first one counted the overall number of any kind of pollinator that flew into the rings and landed on at least one flower. Compared to the control ring ...

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 ...