Hummingbirds are some of the most beautiful and elegant creatures on earth, and inviting them into your yard is almost like ...

It doesn’t take massive flowerbeds to make beneficial insects happy – just a few pollen- and nectar-rich plants in a small area, a pollinator pocket. Common areas such as roadsides, schoolyards and ...

The fluid mechanics underlying nectar feeding in insects represents a fascinating interplay between specialised anatomical structures and the physical properties of nectar. Insects such as honeybees ...

A nectar-feeding bat that was thought to eat insects in passing has been discovered to target its moving prey with stealth precision, according to new research. A nectar-feeding bat that was thought ...

Winter doesn’t have to mean a lifeless garden or a silent backyard. Even when frost creeps in and most plants retreat, some ...

A guide to seven of the best perennials to plant in January, and you can get all of these as bare-root plants to benefit bees ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A population of Buglossoides purpurocaerulea (L.) I.M. Johnst. (Boraginaceae—Lithospermeae) located in Lecceto (Siena Province, Tuscany, ...

In a surprising result, scientists have found that the insect-eating pallid bat is a more effective pollinator of cardon cactus flowers than a nectar-feeding specialist, the lesser long-nosed bat. Of ...