Monarch butterflies have always been remarkably resilient. Every fall, these delicate orange-and-black travelers set out on a ...

Climate warming reduces nectar quality in flowers, leaving migrating monarch butterflies with less energy to survive winter.

Carnivorous pitcher plants attract ants with their sweet but toxic nectar, turning its flowers into a deadly trap.

Aug. 21 (UPI) --New research has found that nectar plays a different role than previously thought -- by acting as the ultimate weapon of distraction for flowers. Nectar is the honey produced by ...

One of the world’s most iconic migrations is at risk, as rising temperatures alter the quality of vital flower nectar. View ...

When hummingbirds forage for nectar in the mountains of Colorado, they avoid flowers that have already been raided by nectar-robbing bumblebees. They do this without having to see the nectar, or ...

Flowers usually expend their energy on making themselves bright and colorful. They bleach themselves white to stand out against dark leaves, or they deck themselves out in colorful patterns, but the ...

After Ethiopian wolves feed on their favorite rodents, they may be enjoying a bit of dessert and in the process helping pollinate plants known as torch lilies. By Elizabeth Anne Brown The Ethiopian ...

A couple of cheeseburgers, several bags of sour cream-and-cheddar potato chips, and a whole bunch of Graeter’s ice cream. By my unscientific calculations, that’s what a human would need to consume to ...

It’s called nectar robbing: Bees get nectar, but don’t pollinate the plants in exchange. With their short tongues, Valley carpenter bees can’t easily drink the nectar from tubular flowers. So they use ...

Ants play a variety of important roles in many ecosystems. As frequent visitors to flowers, they can benefit plants in their role as pollinators when they forage on sugar-rich nectar. However, a new ...