Legumes While the flower is closed, the anther releases pollen, which falls on and surrounds the stigma. This pollinates the flower, which then opens during the day to be receptive to insect ...

Other species are among the living dead because of their interrelationships -- for example, the loss of a pollinator can doom the plant it pollinates, and a prey species can take its predator with ...

Tami Gingrich details the science behind classifying and growing pumpkins, as well as insight into their popularity.

Take the royal catchfly, for example. This plant is native to the Midwest and has a sticky flower to attract and trap pollinating insects to feed birds, and in return, the bird pollinates the plant –– ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.

As they feast, their bodies—covered in fine yellow-brown or gray hairs—become coated in pollen that later cross-pollinates the next flower upon which the bats feed. Lesser long-nosed bats are ...

Huberto Juan Martinez (54) is not at home when we stop in front of his house in Cerro Armadillo Grande. “He is working on the ...

Biodiversity makes soil function effectively, pollinates plants and ensures the functioning of the food system. But what's being done to support biodiversity and is it too little too late? As the ...

it pollinates the flower, helping the Chagual plant continue to propagate. This butterfly species is already endangered and if there were no more Chagual, these butterflies would become extinct ...

“Once it’s being incubated in those fringe environments and it becomes relevant enough, the bridge . . . cross-pollinates the ...

Other species are among the living dead because of their interrelationships -- for example, the loss of a pollinator can doom the plant it pollinates, and a prey species can take its predator with ...