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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

a bat covered in yellow powder

Bats covered in pollen make tequila possible

By Laura Baisas

Bottom up view of sunflower plant in front of steel rebar at construction site against blue sky.

Humans are changing how nature smells, with risks for wildlife

By Hannah Thomasy / MIT Press Reader

Cranberries at a Thanksgiving table

Cranberries can bounce, float, and pollinate themselves

By Serina DeSalvio / The Conversation

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

By Margherita Bassi

Comparison of short green and long red lipstick vine flowers

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 person wearing work gloves gathers dried leaves into a wheelbarrow, emphasizing autumn gardening and yard maintenance within an outdoor environment.

Why fall yard care could start with doing less – but not nothing

By Manjot Kaur Sidhu / The Conversation

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Why millions of adorable bees are emerging from this cemetery

By Matt Simon / Grist

Man using a lawn mower in his back yard.

4 lawn options for people who hate mowing

By Debbie Wolfe

a butterfly with orange, black, and white coloring and wearing a long, thin radio transmitter sits on a green plant

Putting tiny backpacks on butterflies—for science

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

Various flowers in a flowerbed in soft sunlight in summertime.

Everything you need to know about chaos gardening

By Debbie Wolfe

a large hornet dismembers a honey bee

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

By Laura Baisas

A moth with wings extended outward lands on a flower.

This massively underrated pollinator needs your help

By Laura Baisas

a flower with red petals and a large pole-like center growing in a tropical forest

Rare rotting-flesh smelling flower blooming at a Massachusetts college

By Margherita Bassi

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L - R, Sergeants Clarence Beavers, James Kornegay, Ned Bess, Corporal Elijah Wesby and Sergeant Alvin Moon of the United States Army All African American 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (nicknamed the "Triple Nickles" because of its numerical designation) aim their M3 .45-caliber submachine guns, commonly referred to as the "Grease Gun" during a training exercise at Fort Benning circa February 1944 at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. These five soldiers were part of the original 17 member selection that succeeded in becoming the first All African American parachute infantry battalion. In early 1945 the battalion were sent to Camp Pendleton in Oregon and assigned to the 9th Services Command, trained by the U.S. Forest Service, and became history's first military airborne firefighting smokejumpers. (Photo by INP/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

National Park Service names 10 new American World War II Heritage cities

Artist's depiction of White Sands in New Mexico as it existed during the last ice age. At the time, it was marshy and colder, and populated by mammoths, giant sloths, and humans

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North America’s oldest human footprints tell a tale of ice age chaos

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Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

By Margherita Bassi

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Your eyes dilate depending on your thoughts