Sunflower is a native plant in the High Plains region and as a result, sunflower insect pests are also native. These insect pests feed and survive on both wild and domestic (cultivated) sunflower ...

Pexels Somewhere between the vegetable patch and the flower border, there’s a small crisis unfolding. The insects that keep ...

The flower’s pollen works like a medicine for bumblebees afflicted with a nasty parasite. A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) gathers pollen in a field of yellow sunflowers, plants whose ...

To be a successful gardener, it is important to have an integrated approach to handling obstacles in the garden. These considerations include techniques such as planting resistant crop varieties, ...

WELD COUNTY – Three major insects that infest and damage sunflower fields have been detected in the Front Range and northeastern Colorado, according to a specialist from Colorado State University ...

Flower-visiting insects rely on a suite of sensory modalities to locate, evaluate and exploit floral resources, driving both plant and pollinator diversification. Olfactory cues such as floral ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

The morphological compatibility between flowers and insects was given in the famous textbook example of Darwin's orchids and hawkmoths. As in this example, many studies have shown that geographical ...