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The Salty Secret: How Sodium-Enriched Nectar Boosts Pollinator Visits and Diversity
Discover how adding a dash of sodium to nectar transforms pollinator behaviour and plant interactions.
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The Floral Face-Off in Anemone Flowers
Rodríguez-Castañeda and colleagues investigated yellow and white flower varieties of Anemone palmata, revealing fascinating insights into pollinator preferences and flower survival strategies. Their findings show
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How Anthurium Species Share Pollinators
Overlapping flowering times help Anthurium plants attract more insect visitors.
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How High-Altitude Flowers Thrive in the Venezuelan Andes
Explore the fascinating relationship between flower colour changes and pollinator visits in high-altitude environments
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Arisaema Plants Kill Those That Help Them Live
Arisaema plants use a unique “lethal deceptive pollination” strategy, trapping and killing their insect pollinators.
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The Shy Beauty of Fritillaria delavayi: Balancing Pollination and Camouflage
Discover how the elusive Fritillaria delavayi uses camouflage and specialised pollinators to overcome the challenges of herbivory.
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From country to concrete: evidence that cities are changing how plants reproduce
Scientists found that plants growing in the city make more self-pollinating flowers and have seeds that sprout and grow faster compared to their country cousins, showing how urban life is secretly changing plants over time.
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Pollinators Prefer Threesomes
Scientists working with Chamaecrista latistipula discover that pollinators prefer plants that are in already in a relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
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The co-evolution of oil-producing flowers and pollinator behaviour from Mexico to Argentina
A new study found that the way bees collect oil from flowers affects which flower traits are favoured in different places, helping explain why similar plants living far apart can evolve distinct characteristics over time.
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Forest Loss Leads to Less Diverse Diets for Orchid Bees
Orchid Bees are thought to have generalist diets, but take forest plants from the menu, and they become a lot less successful.
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How an Italian butterfly is navigating the Anthropocene
A new study reveals that endangered butterflies can find unlikely refuge in cities, if urban greenspaces are managed with connectivity in mind.
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Botanists Record the First Case of “Mirror Flowers” in an Oil-Producing Flower Species.
Researchers from Northeast Brazil describe the first case of specular flowers in Janusia anisandra, a species that offers oils as floral resources.