It’s not as simple as planting a garden full of red flowers.

Why do flowers specialize on different pollinators? For example, both bats and hummingbirds pollinate plants in tropical forests; why adapt to just one instead of using both? Biologists often assume ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides ...

Bees that land on short, wide flowers can fly away with an upset stomach. The parasite (Crithidia bombi) is transmitted when the insects accidentally ingest contaminated bee feces, which “tends to ...

With Valentine’s Day just two weeks away, science really is upping the stakes in exactly which flowers to buy your loved one on this Hallmark Holiday to show them how much you really care. First up, ...

The fit between flower and pollinator is key: Bats pollinate wide flowers better, while hummingbirds transfer more pollen between narrow flowers. Videotaping demonstrated that a poor fit fails to ...