butterflies are not as important for pollination as some other insects, but their abundance in florally diverse meadows and chalk downlands, for example, can sometimes make them more important than ...

Spring flowers have co-evolved with insect pollinators for a long time. The flowers require pollen delivery to set seed. To ...

Insect-pollinated flowers are different in structure from wind-pollinated flowers. This table describes some differences: Examples of plants that use insects for cross-pollination include apples ...

As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also utilize deception in order to be get pollinated ... ruses to lure insects. Generally we think of flowers as offering food ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change highlights the way this impacts interconnected plant and insect ... the plants may also miss their opportunity to become pollinated.

The late spider orchid however is pollinated solely by sexual deception involving insects, which means the flower is a much rarer sight. Join Museum botanist Fred Rumsey on the North Downs in Kent as ...