What Role Do Hummingbirds Play in Pollination? In its simplest form, pollination is like sex for plants. It’s how they reproduce and form fruits and new flowers. Think of a pollen grain as a sperm.
For years, most researchers had assumed that hummingbirds spent only about 30 percent of their day engaged in the energy-intensive business of flitting from flower to flower and guzzling nectar ...
made high-speed films of hummingbirds drinking from feeders and flowers, he found that their forked tongues are more like a catcher’s mitt than like rigid drinking straws. Each tube of the ...
3D model of the ancestral flower reconstructed by the new study, showing multiple whorls of petal-like organs, in sets of threes. All living flowers ultimately derive from a single ancestor that ...
Ruby-throated hummingbirds live in woodland areas, but also frequent gardens where flowering plants are plentiful. They hover to feed on flowers, nectar, and sap. During this floral feeding ...
Pollination can be a pretty cut-throat process in the plant kingdom. A team of scientists from South Africa and Brazil found that rival plants may compete with one another for space on pollinators.
Kim Baek-du is a ssireum prodigy in the Korean drama Like Flowers In Sand. Early on he excelled at the style of Korean folk wrestling that has been played since the fourth century. In this type of ...