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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study looking at the impacts of common air pollutants has found that flower pollination is significantly lower where pollution is present. Visits to flowers by pollinators was more than 80 per cent ...

Most flowers are eager to spread pollen, but some hold out for just the right partner. Most flowering plants are more than willing to spread their pollen around. But some flowers hold out for just the ...

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 ...

Cucurbits are monoecious in general; the female flowers occur lower than the male flowers in fields. Often farmers are not aware of this type of sex expression, and are concerned about the low fruit ...

Researchers showed that tobacco hawkmoths lost attraction to the scent of their preferred flowers when that scent had been altered by ozone. This oxidizing pollutant thus disturbs the chemical ...

This communication presents experimental research findings on the application of the flower pollination algorithm (FPA) and the African buffalo optimization (ABO) to implement the complex and fairly ...

The petals of the flowers have various substances that create a “bull's-eye” effect that guides insects in their search for pollen. This was explained by the study led by Matthew H. Koski, assistant ...