Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Asters are a welcome addition to any garden Beneficial hoverflies can control an aphid population New York aster likes wet habitats Fall asters, goldenrods and black-eyed Susans are the mainstays of ...

If evolutionary biologists are the detectives of the natural world’s past mysteries, then the phylogenic tree is their version of a cork board of crime-scene suspects linked together with red string ...

When some insects zero in on a flower for nectar, their ultraviolet vision is guided by a bull's-eye "painted" on the plant by chemical compounds. Now, chemical ecologists at Cornell University have ...

A century of records shows Colorado’s Pikes Peak flowers now bloom up to 17 days earlier, revealing how warming disrupts ...

Flowers with more chemically diverse scents attract more insects but host fewer bacteria, showing scent shapes pollination and flower health.

Protecting plants from insects doesn't necessarily involve the use of chemicals. Nature already provides some effective ways ...

Q. How can I keep the beetles away and keep the invisible insects from eating holes in my rose leaves? The beetles have not been too bad the last couple of years, but the holes in the leaves never ...

THE interest arising out of the writings of Darwin, Lubbock, and Hermann Müller relative to the part played by insects in their oft-recurring visits to flowers has of late years attracted much ...

There are insects that feed on plants and those that feed on other insects. In your garden, you want as many of the carnivores as possible so that the herbivores won’t devour your crops. Unfortunately ...