Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they ...

Pawpaw trees don’t produce male and female flower parts on separate plants, but even though each tree has all the requisite ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a new study. After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that ...

Q: We’ve gathered lots of tomatoes and green beans even though I have not seen many bees. I have planted coneflowers nearby to attract pollinators. Do all plants have both male and female blooms like ...

PORTLAND, ORE. — A great flower shape for a moth trying to get a drink in the dark turns out to be awful from the plant’s point of view. Offering hawk moths (Manduca sexta) a range of 3-D printed ...

Flowers are mainly made up of four parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and the pistil. Every part has it's unique and different function to make flower grow, fertilise and fruit production. Flower Parts: ...