Fuchsia flowers hang downward and serve as an ideal food source for this pollinator by offering great quantities of nectar. Hint: While most pollinating insects are blind to the color red ...

Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best nectar-producing plants for honey bees and other pollinators ...

Ivy: Why do insects want to look orange? You look silly. Posey: Insects want to drink the nectar at the bottom of the flower, and they have to squeeze past the stamen and the pollen to get there.

They spend the winter in central Mexico then follow the scent of blooming flowers—often called the "nectar trail"—as far north as southern Arizona and New Mexico. They can also be found in the ...

Doctoral student Nicole Soper Gorden receives National Science Foundation dissertation grant UMass Amherst Report Though summer’s flowers appear delicate and carefree to us, in fact plants ...