Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of cycad plants. Researchers now know that the cones attract pollinators by ...

We tend to think of plants as passive, vulnerable actors. But in their partnership with insects, it’s plants that often play the leading role. Sometimes, this can get pretty surprising. As evening ...

This is what we call monoecious plants. The plant has both male and female functions but separated in different flowers. Often, these flowers appear at different times of the year, which doesn't allow ...

A new theoretical study shows that self-organized vegetation patterns can stabilize plant–pollinator mutualisms, allowing ...

Plants and animals can depend on each other in surprisingly specialized ways, creating some of nature’s most unusual ...

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

A field experiment on the Tibetan Plateau shows that artificial light at night collapses moth visitation, boosts flies, and ...

"Pollen has landed on the pistil. Therefore, it is fertilized."If your child answers that way, the first part is correct. The ...