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 ...

natural selection has favored flowers that happen to bloom in the period when male wasps are flying but females are not out yet. Why orchids have evolved sexual mimicry for pollination is open for ...

oil-bee visit frequencies (visits per flower per hour) to the orchid flowers increased hundreds of times, suggesting that the orchids' pollination success was greatly attributed to the co ...

The goldenrod's pollen sticks to the bee's body, moving with it from flower to flower and leading to pollination. When Charles Darwin studied this orchid and its 10-to-12-inch nectar tube in the ...

Currently, we are investigating how pollen limitation of multiple wildflower species varies among years and fragments that differ in bee diversity, and we are building plant-pollinator interaction ...

For decades, scientists assumed the orchid mantis mimicked the orchid flower as a form of camouflage to protect itself from prey. Turns out that wasn't quite the case. Superstar/Shutterstock ...

Female bees are the most important pollinators in our region ... Introduced worldwide for use in pollination of agriculturally important crops. The colours indicate pollinator type, and each bar is ...

He also analyzed the flowers' morphology at various stages throughout their development to understand how pollination and fertilization occur. The orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus grows in dark ...

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 ...