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 ...
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 ...
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 ...