Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For decades, scientists have been studying a South African daisy ...

It’s not easy being a fly. You don’t live long, you eat lots of feces and sometimes, when you’re just trying to get laid, you get tricked by a flower into being its artificial sperm donor. Meet the ...

Across the western Cape of South Africa can be found small plants in the Iris family called Babiana. Flitting between them are sunbirds, small colourful birds like the African version of hummingbirds, ...

HUNTSBURG TOWNSHIP, Ohio — It is spontaneous, quick and devoid of passion. Mating season is underway in Jerry Rose's giant pumpkin patch. While casual gardeners rely on bees to move pollen from the ...

Essentials of flower design and function -- Why pollination is interesting -- Floral design and function -- Pollination, mating, and reproduction in plants -- Evolution of flowers, pollination, and ...

Floral hermaphroditism results in conflicts and compromise in the parental roles of plants during pollination and mating. A potential cost of hermaphroditism is sexual interference between maternal ...

What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...

Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths to attract members of the opposite sex, including the use of aliases and lies. As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also ...

Pollinator-driven diversification is thought to be a major source of floral variation in plants. Our knowledge of this process is, however, limited to indirect assessments of evolutionary changes.