Lantana’s exuberant flowers—the individual blooms are tiny, but burst forth in tight clusters—attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Lantana’s exuberant flowers—the individual blooms are ...
Hummingbirds eat nectar, a sugary substance from plants. They don't have a great sense of smell, says Van Rees, so they use their eyesight to find potential food sources. The key to attracting ...
Almost every time I look at the beautiful red flowers, there’s at least one hummingbird nearby. Feeders are a great way to attract hummingbirds to your space because they give you the ...
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 ...
Knowable Magazine Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the ...
When Alejandro Rico-Guevara, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, made high-speed films of hummingbirds drinking from feeders and flowers, he found that their ...