When pollinators land on a flower, they're on a mission: They're looking for sweet nectar to eat and specks of nutritious ...

It's a flowering plant endemic to Brazil, which was already known to utilize a catapult-like appendage for flinging its pollen onto the beaks of visiting hummingbirds. Until now, that mechanism ...

Pollen blasts from Hypenea macrantha flowers knock competitors’ pollen off hummingbird beaks To see if the projectile pollen blew away the competition, evolutionary ecologist Bruce Anderson and ...

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. Over time, some ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

While there are a lot of good reasons to plant sunflowers in your garden, they aren't so wonderful for many allergy sufferers. Allergies to sunflower pollen are relatively common, but you don't ...

From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse into a tiny world.

plant mating does not involve direct contact between flowers. Consequently, the manipulation of pollen—pollen carries plant sperm—needs to occur before the pollen reaches another flower ...

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Instead, pollen (which carries plant sperm) is transported by pollinators such as birds or insects, making competition for prime space on pollinators’ bodies crucial to reproductive success.