Alun Salt - Botany One (Page 49)

How can you encourage ladybugs to your garden?

Ladybugs, or Ladybirds, are popular insects with gardeners with a taste for pests like aphids, but it’s not just prey that’s important. Entomologists have examined plants to see what else a ladybug looks for in a home.

Alun Salt

05 Oct 2022

annals-of-botany

Better sex doesn’t lead to better reproduction for a Balearic Arum

Botanists have found disturbance can increase pollination and seed set for an Arum on Mallorca. So why isn’t that good news for the plant?

Alun Salt

04 Oct 2022

Cells, Genes & Molecules

Botanists discover not all clones are the same, it depends on how you make them

A study of Paspalum species native to South America shows that while clones can expand a plant’s range, the method a parent uses to clone itself will impact how the population develops.

Alun Salt

03 Oct 2022

Close Encounters

Seed distribution by birds can be too much of a good thing

Ecologists find that while birds can scatter seeds, sometimes they take their treasures too far to aid a plant.

Alun Salt

29 Sep 2022

Close Encounters

Warming wasps pollinate poorly

As temperatures rise, the life span of a crucial pollinator diminishes to the extent it may not be able to do its job.

Alun Salt

28 Sep 2022

Close Encounters

Native plants in urban settings can improve bird diversity

In urban areas, gardens and parks can provide green oases among the concrete, and birds are adapted to fly in and settle in these areas. But not all green spaces are the same.

Alun Salt

16 Sep 2022