For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

At a recent used book sale I purchased a copy of a lovely book called "One Hundred Flowers," by Harold Feinstein (Bullfinch Press, 2000). This large-format book includes not only 100 amazing, huge ...

Scientists found a tropical vine that changed its flowers without losing its pollinators, revealing a more flexible path to ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Answer: This question is a good one because the answer is beautiful. Big, fragrant, flamboyant flowers are a good indicator that an insect or other animal pollinates the plant. When the flowers are ...

Time-lapse of growing tomatillo from seed to plant. It was growing strong and start blooming around 30th day onward. The ...

Birds have been visiting and pollinating flowers for at least 47 million years, fossil evidence now suggests. The new find pushes back the onset of ornithophily, or bird pollination, by about 17 ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that more bees equals more pollination, and that bee shortages are to blame for diminishing yields and rising costs. But as recent seasons have shown, the answer to ...