Attracting hummingbirds to your garden is more than just a lovely sight. Hummingbirds are the primary pollinators for a variety of native plants, sipping nectar from flower to flower with pollen ...

When you hear Hummingbird Mint, you probably think of one particular plant—likely one with a tall stock of brightly colored blooms in purple, orange, or magenta. That’s because Hummingbird ...

Hummingbirds especially like any native varieties that are also heat tolerant. This small tuberous plant prefers partial shade and moist soil. Deer-resistant and requiring little to no pruning ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Andrew Wight is a science journalist covering the Global South Colombian researcher Mónica Ramírez Burbano turned a fascination with ...

But just because the hummingbirds have headed south, it's no reason to abandon thoughts of them flitting about your garden, happily slurping sweet nectar and pollinating everything they touch.

she asks. A ruby-topaz hummingbird rests on a plant. Juan Jose Arango / VW PICS / Universal Images Group via Getty Images One set of genes that the birds seem to leave untouched are those ...

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 ...

But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in a reenactment of an experiment that ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

There are plants almost everywhere on our planet. They may grow from a seed or a bulb but all have three important parts: Plants are everywhere. You can find them in some homes, in parks ...