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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

Cranberries at a Thanksgiving table

Cranberries can bounce, float, and pollinate themselves

By Serina DeSalvio / The Conversation

Comparison of short green and long red lipstick vine flowers

This odd vine contradicts long-standing evolutionary theory

a pink orchid with delicate petals

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

By Margherita Bassi

A moth with wings extended outward lands on a flower.

This massively underrated pollinator needs your help

By Laura Baisas

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

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

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

Old tombstones with flowers decorated

Why millions of adorable bees are emerging from this cemetery

By Matt Simon / Grist

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

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

Superbloom turns Redwood National Park’s hills purple

By Laura Baisas

white flowering tree in front of apartment building

Why spring smells like semen and rotting fish

Pink clover meadow and blue sky.

This lawn-mowing robot can save part of your yard for pollinators

Fuzzy beetle on red flower

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

yellow pollen shooting out of a red flower

Plants could be manipulating sperm in completely new ways

By Laura Baisas

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

By Alisha McDarris

Armenian sapphire (muscari armeniacum) flowers closeup. Shallow depth of field.

How to revamp your lawn’s reputation with bulbs

By Debbie Wolfe

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It’s National Paper Airplane Day: How to make a NASA-approved plane

By Laura Baisas

two sea slugs that are transluscent with yellow and black spots

Seed-size sea slug looks like an everything bagel

By Margherita Bassi

a gold medal from the 1924 olympics in paris. the text on one side reads VIII OLYMPIAD PARIS 1924 and has a rugby ball, discuss, and a harp etched in. the other shows a winner reaching down to help up a fallen competitor over the five interlocking olympic rings

Extremely rare 1924 Olympic gold medal up for auction

By Laura Baisas

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Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers

By Tik Root/Grist