Have you ever noticed flowers quietly folding their petals just before a storm breaks? It almost feels magical, as if these ...

When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee.

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 ...

With explosive bursts of pollen, male Hypenea macrantha flowers knock some competitors’ deposits off hummingbird beaks before the birds reach females.

Some plants cause more suffering than others for gardeners with pollen allergies The return of the spring garden can bring a sneezy, itchy, foggy-headed feeling to many allergy sufferers.

Competing for space on hummingbird beaks, Hypeniea macrantha flowers fire pollen projectile blasts to dislodge pollen from rival plants in a bid to ensure the bird’s pollinating travels include ...

Archaeology Famous Neanderthal 'flower burial' debunked because pollen was left by burrowing bees News By Kristina Killgrove published 31 August 2023 ...