What happens to carnivorous plants when the insects bite back?
A moth could be interfering with a pitcher plant’s reproduction by developing a taste for flowers – or at least parts of a flower.
Tag: florivory
In Lomatia, the pollen is naturally poisoned
Lomatia stores the ingredients for cyanide, somewhere in its flowers.
Beauty is in the nose of the beholder
It’s no surprise that a flower releases scent to attract a pollinator, but why would it do it hours before the pollinator is around? New research finds scent can have more than one job.
Botanists set the relationship status of Plants, Pollinators and Antagonists to “It’s complicated”
What happens when a flower is eaten or pollinated? A study in the American Journal of Botany shows one interaction can impact in an unexpected way on another.
