You could consider hummingbirds as carb-loaders, just like an athlete might fill up on carbohydrates before a big game. Their ...

Like other hummingbirds, they play an important role in the pollination of flowers. They’re primarily woodland birds that occupy mixed woodlands, eastern deciduous and pine forests, and forest ...

I wrote on plunger pollination and other strategies plants employ to achieve out-crossing, which mixes genes of two parent ...

In experiments at the Las Cruces Biological Station in Costa Rica, Betts and Hadley began by trying to pollinate Heliconia plants by hand ... they exposed Heliconia to six species of hummingbirds and ...

The red buckeye’s showy, red flowers are blooming in the wild now beneath forest canopies in Georgia’s Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions. The plant, typically a small shrub, also has been widely ...