With blooms in blue, purple, pink, or white, this flower is like an open invitation to hummingbirds and butterflies. See why ...

A yard buzzing with bees, fluttering with butterflies, and visited by hummingbirds feels alive in a way that few landscaping ...

Some pollinators not only provide fertilization services for flowering plants, they also lay their eggs on the plants' leaves after they have visited the flowers. Voracious caterpillars hatch from ...

Native plants and insects evolved together making them the best match for each other. Nativar flowers often have reduced ...

To make sure that flying pollinators come to flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract the animals. Scientists have now identified the sugar transporter that ...

Flowers usually expend their energy on making themselves bright and colorful. They bleach themselves white to stand out against dark leaves, or they deck themselves out in colorful patterns, but the ...

Humidity emanating from a flower's nectar stores tells moths if the flower is worth a visit, entomologists have discovered. The study sheds light onto a previously unknown mechanism used by ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --New research has found that nectar plays a different role than previously thought -- by acting as the ultimate weapon of distraction for flowers. Nectar is the honey produced by ...

As bee and butterfly numbers fall across Britain, ordinary gardeners hold unexpected power. With just seven easy flowers, UK ...

Sunbirds drink nectar using tongue-powered suction, a feeding method that has never been seen never before in a vertebrate.