If you were a flowering plant, wouldn't you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting "rival" ...

Ever heard of a cross-dressing plant? Botanist Chris Martine has discovered one in the middle of the harsh Australian outback. He’s dubbed it Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related ...

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 ...

For one group of plants, having brightly coloured flowers isn’t enough to guarantee being pollinated. When birds rip bits out of the flowers to eat them, special bellow-like organs blast pollen onto ...

Hard-to-groom zones line up with where flower reproductive parts touch the insects Bee bodies may be built just right to help pollen hitch a ride between flowers. For the first time, scientists have ...

America’s woodlands will soon be carpeted with delicate bunchberry dogwood flowers -- or maybe not so delicate. A team of scientists has reported that the blossoms explode open in less than 0.5 ...

Wild flower margins around arable fields can funnel deadly pesticides into the bees, wild pollinators and other insects they are intended to benefit, writes Oliver Tickell. Neonic pesticides are often ...

Scientists are blaming an unsuspecting creature for disturbing a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal burial: burrowing bees. These insects may have hidden pollen underneath a Neanderthal's remains, tricking ...

When we think of fossils, we tend to imagine the strong, sturdy bones of dinosaurs and the hard, calcified shells of ammonites. Most of us do not picture the delicately preserved petals of an ancient ...

For one group of plants, having brightly coloured flowers isn’t enough to guarantee being pollinated. When birds rip bits out of the flowers to eat them, special bellow-like organs blast pollen onto ...