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A climbing vine called Smilax insularis controls its pollinator’s behavior using a single rare scent released at different ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be ...

Pollen of flowering plants can be dispersed by animals, wind or even by water. In assessing pollination modes, a fundamental question is how many flowering plants are pollinated by animals. Although ...

When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

"Artificial light affects plant pollination even during the daytime." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 03 / 210317111751.htm (accessed April 5, 2026).

Researchers have found that a plant with white flowers and a dark black nectar is pollinated mainly by hawkmoths.

The use of artificial light at night around the world has increased enormously in recent years, causing adverse effects on the survival and reproduction of nocturnal organisms. Artificial light at ...