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a pink and yellow flower with delicate petals

Plants can hear tiny wing flaps of pollinators

By Laura Baisas

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Stressed bees are pessimistic pollinators

A screenshot of one unidentified small hawkmoth unsuccessful visit to an orchid, recorded with a camera trap.

‘Spectacular’ new orchid species is pollinated by moths

By Laura Baisas

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Cranberries can bounce, float, and pollinate themselves

By Serina DeSalvio / The Conversation

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Bats covered in pollen make tequila possible

By Laura Baisas

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Humans are changing how nature smells, with risks for wildlife

By Hannah Thomasy / MIT Press Reader

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Beware, bees! This wildflower will trap you in a floral escape room.

By Margherita Bassi

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This odd vine contradicts long-standing evolutionary theory

Titan arum or Amorphophallus Titanum at the botanical garden

How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell

By Delphine Farmer, Mj Riches, Rose Rossell / The Conversation

A moth with wings extended outward lands on a flower.

This massively underrated pollinator needs your help

By Laura Baisas

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Why millions of adorable bees are emerging from this cemetery

By Matt Simon / Grist

The blue marked Queen of a Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) colony is searching for a place to insert an egg.

Queen bees are violently ousted if worker bees smell weakness

By Laura Baisas

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4 lawn options for people who hate mowing

By Debbie Wolfe

The weevil Anchylorhynchus trapezicollis is the main pollinator of South American palm Syagrus coronata. Here, the weevil is seen on a female flower, touching the receptive parts and leaving pollen grains in the process.

Move over, bees: The lowly weevil is a power pollinator

By Laura Baisas

a superbloom of tall purple wildflowers called lupine with mountains in the distance

Superbloom turns Redwood National Park’s hills purple

By Laura Baisas

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Why spring smells like semen and rotting fish

a large hornet dismembers a honey bee

1,400 different bug species found in the guts of Asian hornets

By Laura Baisas

Various flowers in a flowerbed in soft sunlight in summertime.

Everything you need to know about chaos gardening

By Debbie Wolfe

Fuzzy beetle on red flower

Most bugs can’t see red—but these beetles can

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Visit one of the world’s most prolific research stations in Colorado mountains

By Alisha McDarris

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By Margherita Bassi