Rolling out a red carpet of cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis) can transform your garden into a hummingbird hotspot. Monikered so as their vermilion inflorescence uncannily matches the reds of ...

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 ...

Putting up a hummingbird feeder is one thing, but watching them build up their own nests from scratch in your garden is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

From hummingbirds ... mix of plant species for that place ― bluegrass, fescue, and rye grass, that we could cut close to the ground to create a perfect living, breathing carpet.

Would you like to cure your dependence on insecticides for pest control forever? There are pest control methods that do not ...

The world famous Hummingbird Bakery has released a cookbook so you can bake the sweets loved by stars, such as celebrity mum Gwyneth Paltrow. We've got a sneak preview here of the tasty baked treats ...

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 ...