You can't see it, but different substances in the petals of flowers create a "bulls-eye" for pollinating insects, according to a Clemson University scientist whose research sheds light on chemical ...

For flowering plants, attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how they do it is very intriguing.

When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...

Why do some plants produce small and unattractive flowers? Two Montreal researchers think they've figured out why, supporting a hypothesis dating back 150 years to Charles Darwin. People often thing ...

What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Ah, springtime. The bees are buzzing, the flowers are blooming and people are sneezing. This time of year, insects are usually hard at work pollinating plants and flowers. But the ...

Bees aren’t the only insects pollinating red clover. Moths do about a third of the flower visits after dark, new research suggests. The findings, detailed in the July Biology Letters, come as a ...

A study in the journal Plant Biology by researchers from Macquarie University and international collaborators has shown for the first time, that plants reuse resources from wilting flowers to support ...