This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...
Bees that land on short, wide flowers can fly away with an upset stomach. The parasite (Crithidia bombi) is transmitted when the insects accidentally ingest contaminated bee feces, which “tends to ...
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Strange parasitic 'mushroom' plant abandoned photosynthesis and somehow flourished
In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...
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A rare parasitic plant lives underground without photosynthesis and reproduces asexually
Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...
North Carolina State University researchers show that the shape of flowers has the biggest effect on how parasites are transmitted to bees, an important consideration for declining populations of our ...
image: Having more flowers and maintaining diverse bee communities could help reduce the spread of bee parasites, according to a new study. view more Having more flowers and maintaining diverse bee ...
Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...
A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.
Malaria is a disease caused by single-celled parasites from the Plasmodium group, transmitted to humans through infected mosquitoes’ bites. Once the parasites enter the bloodstream, they are in danger ...
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-0841862, DEB-0743535/0742923 and DEB-1258 096/1256817). Search for information on ‘self-medication,’ and you’ll likely find ...
Measure for Measure Act 3, scene 2. I have a buddy named L. L. Gaddy…he goes by “Chick”…and he is one of the best botanists in the Southeast. He’s discovered a number of new plant species, authored ...
of Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC-Davis A honey bee forages on a pansy flower. A University of California-Riverside study found that flowers can be a platform for parasites that harm bees. Bees and flowers ...
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