We have looked at plants as a whole, then the individual parts (seeds, roots, stems, and leaves) to explore their world. Today, we are delving into flowers, the sexual parts of the plants. The ...

The researchers recorded the buzzing of this bee and played the audio back in the vicinity of blooming snapdragons. What happened next surprised even the seasoned scientists. The flowers responded to ...

to monitor the flowers' reactions. The researchers found that the sounds of bees, which are efficient snapdragon pollinators, led the snapdragons to increase their sugar and nectar volume ...

When talking about the birds and the bees of ... flowering plants. In the garden, pollination is largely carried out by insects that move pollen from flower to flower. “Usually, plants will use a ...

Unlike hummingbirds and butterflies, bees prefer daisy-like flowers that have a shallow structure, because they cannot reach into bell-shaped or trumpet-shaped flowers to get to the nectar. That's why ...

Researchers have discovered that Ethiopian wolves, Africa's most endangered carnivore, consume nectar from the ... while birds and bees pollinate the flowers. But what happens when those ...

The vast majority (87%) of the insects we saw were bumble bees. Of the flower traits we measured (number of flowers per square metre, their length, and the amount of nectar sugar produced per ...

When confronted with these choices, you’d think bees would always pick the flowers with the most accessible, highest-quality nectar and pollen. But they don’t. Instead, just like human grocery ...

The crocus is a spring-flowering bulb that offers more than just plenty of pollen; as bees will sometimes shelter overnight inside the flowers. Snowdrops are also a welcome source of nectar and ...