On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You’ll only find it if you know ...

The mysterious Dracula vampira, known as the Vampire Orchid, is one of the most dramatic orchids we’ve digitised. Native to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human impacts go beyond fragmentation of habitat to other modifications. We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination ...

who was out from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m., is looking at the orchid’s pollination networks: the pollinators that visit the orchid and what other plants they visit, too. She swabs the orchids at all her ...

A newly published paper, "A new orchid species expands Darwin's predicted pollination guild in Madagascar," reveals an unexpected new case of parallel evolution with Darwin's orchid in the newly ...

The orchid offers no nectar or pollen reward; rather, it seduces male bees with the promise of bee sex and then insures its pollination by frustrating precisely the desire it has excited.

Therefore, long stems represent an adaptation to aid bat pollination. "This work suggests long stems make bat-flowers more 'visible' to bats in the same way that bright red petals help ...