Many plants and crops rely on insects to pollinate them so they can reproduce. A new study has shown that several flowering plants from the group Euonymus are pollinated by fungus gnats, a dipteran ...

Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to the simple factors needed for the emergence of new species. Research into the flower preferences of ...

Pollination represents a critical ecological service by which pollen is transferred from the male to the female structures of flowering plants, enabling fertilisation and seed production. Mechanisms ...

In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted - and 27 years later, proved - that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of ...