University of Lethbridge researcher Shelley Hoover recently explained how these tiny creatures contribute billions to the ...

Flowers can produce showy displays that appeal to pollinating insects or animals, but some "cheat" by enticing pollinators but not rewarding them with nectar. Research in New Phytologist indicates ...

Can they find any other examples of animals besides insects that pollinate specific plants? Students could then study the parts of flowers. They could be allowed to collect flowers from their ...

Flowers can produce showy displays that appeal to pollinating insects or animals, but some "cheat" by enticing pollinators but not rewarding them with nectar. Research in New Phytologist indicates ...

One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one flower to another, where fertilization takes place. Below ...

But of course, any animal that visits a flower has the potential to be a pollinator! Almost 90% of flowering plants need pollinators to reproduce, so bees are important for ecosystem stability. Like ...

Madeline Hoppe / Lawn Love As you sit down for dinner tonight to enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables, remember to thank the ...

Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths to attract ... Generally we think of flowers as offering food to the insects that pollinate them. Evolution has produced many flower species ...

Pollination is the vital process in flowering ... Just as importantly, it helps to feed many other animals in the food chain and maintains the genetic diversity of the flowering plants.