Wild honeybees in Southern California are devouring the food supplies of native pollinators — posing a potential threat to the region’s natural ecosystems, a new study has found. These feral ...

Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes. News Today's news ...

The match-up then influences whose pollen makes it to the next flower and whose does not. The findings are detailed in a study recently published in The American Naturalist .

However, elements of the flower burial theory didn’t seem to add up. Hunt and his colleagues were working in the Shanidar Cave in 2014 when they found traces of ancient pollen on the surface of ...

Some flowers may be using their pollinators as sexual battlegrounds. Red, Brazilian flowers called Hypenea macrantha use projectile blasts of pollen to knock rival pollen off of hummingbirds ...

This July 9, 2023, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows a zinnia flower in bloom. (Jessica Damoano Via AP) And not just any pollen, but the nearly weightless kind that floats up our noses and ...

A new study debunks the idea that Neanderthals buried a man on a bed of flowers about 75,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

While bees get most of the pollination hype, butterflies and moths are some of our planet’s power pollinators.While in flight, they collect so much static electricity that pollen grains from ...

A 40-million-year-old fossilized flower is shown preserved in amber. This is the largest amber-preserved flower fossil known to date. Carola Radke/Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ...