Pollinator-friendly flowers do more than add color to the garden —they help create a thriving backyard ecosystem. Bees, ...

A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...

A study found that bees remain active in mountain cloud forests, but hummingbirds transfer pollen more effectively.

Large differences in flower characteristics between wildflowers with different pollinators are achieved by a few key genetic differences, according to a study by Carolyn Wessinger at the University of ...

With blooms in blue, purple, pink, or white, this flower is like an open invitation to hummingbirds and butterflies. See why ...

Interactions between hummingbirds and flowering plants represent a finely tuned mutualism in which both partners exhibit complementary adaptations. Floral traits such as tube length, nectar volume and ...

With their quick-moving wings flapping up to 200 times a second while sometimes buzzing around and feasting on colorful flowers, hummingbirds can easily brighten a day. In addition to beauty, ...

One lovely evening last summer I was enjoying a cocktail in my friend Joanie’s backyard. As we sat there sipping tequila and sodas in the gloaming, about a half dozen hummingbirds showed up to join ...

Some years ago, scientists examining wild plants in a western corner of the United States encountered a curiously colorful example of biodiversity. Two species of red Mimulus (monkeyflowers) normally ...