Boing Boing introduces numerous "Flower pictures taken in the insect world". You can see at a glance that the insects are watching flowers with different criteria and we can see the flowers with ...

Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

If evolutionary biologists are the detectives of the natural world’s past mysteries, then the phylogenic tree is their version of a cork board of crime-scene suspects linked together with red string ...

Researchers have discovered that insects leave tiny DNA traces on the flowers they visit. This newly developed eDNA method holds a vast potential for documenting unknown insect-plant interactions, ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Q: Many insects are visiting my pollinator garden that look like yellow-orange versions of a firefly. Some of the petals are missing on those flowers. How do I keep them from chewing my plants? A: ...

Unlike other insects that merely aim to blend in, the orchid mantis mimics a whole flower with faux petals You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

Some plants use insects to carry pollen and use sweet nectar as food to attract bees and moths. New research has revealed that some plants use the 'smell of dead insects' rather than sweet nectar to ...