Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

Scientists have solved the 130-year mystery of Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, a fungus-consuming orchid with a unique ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

While many trees are assisted by pollinators like bees and butterflies, some trees are self-pollinating - this includes pomegranate trees. But, what exactly does this mean? And what do you need to ...

Honeybees along with 1,500 other insect species pollinate plants in the UK. Self-pollination: The pollen grain lands on the same flower it originated from. Cross-pollination: The pollen grain ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...

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When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

The diminutive orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus was named in 1891 for the finger-like appendage on its stigma. Now, over 130 years later, Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji has discovered that ...

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