Also called the pintail beetle, this creature is renowned for its tumbling, flipping, turning and jumping motions when it is ...

After it is released from a flower’s anther, a pollen grain walks a humidity tightrope. It dries up a bit as it travels through the air, the cellular material inside becoming dormant so it ...

Flowers contain male and female reproductive parts. The pistil is the female part of a flower and is comprised of the stigma, style, and ovary. The sticky texture of the stigma, combined with its ...

A 40-million-year-old fossilized flower is shown preserved in amber. This is the largest amber-preserved flower fossil known to date. Carola Radke/Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ...

Flowers use a variety of strategies to inform pollinating insects about their pollen reserves, including color, smell and even electrical changes. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

In fact, bees are so good at stashing pollen that less than 4 percent of a flower’s pollen grains may reach the pollen-receiving parts of a second flower of the same species.

Soap bubbles that deliver pollen to flowers could offer an alternative way of fertilising plants as bee populations decline, while being more delicate than other methods. Eijiro Miyako at the ...

Before the bees Pollen grains are small, robust and numerous. This makes them easier to find in the fossil record than comparably large and fragile leaves and flowers.

A pollen grain’s stripped-down mission is to carry male sex cells to female parts of flowers. It’s a chancy and dangerous job. But evolution has honed formidable chemistry that protects the ...

In reality, more pollen grains are often deposited on the stigma than are necessary to fertilize all ovules in a flower, creating an opportunity for selection among pollen grains before zygote ...