Research shows that patches of flowering plants can provide crucial shade during heatwaves, even in surprisingly small patches.
Tag - insects
Alun Salt
How mammals and molluscs attack oaks
Foraging decisions of molluscs and mammals repulse seedlings from old adults.
Fi Gennu
Non-insect-eating insectivorous plant
Probably the one thing one could guess about an insectivorous plant is that it ‘eats’ insects. Take for example one of the most iconic entomophagous botanics of them all, the Venus fly-trap (Dionaea muscipula). The...
Nigel Chaffey
Flying insects plummet
Where have all the flower-pollinating insects have gone?
All’s fir in love and war
Nigel Chaffey discovers there is a fountain of youth, but only if you're a firebug.
In the right place at the right time for pollination
Parnassia epunctulata, a herb with generalized pollination, which exhibits sequential stamen movement.
AJ Cann
Australia’s national flower is an invasive species – even in Australia
How do you control a problem like Acacia pycnantha? First, figure out what you are dealign with.
The ecological importance of sedges (Invited Review)
Sword and rapier sedges (Lepidosperma, Cyperaceae) are common in the southern Australian and New Zealand floras, also occurring in New Caledonia and South-east Asia. Sedge ecology is seldom studied and Barrett provides...
botanyone
My favourite colour is structural colour
What do peacocks, CDs and certain plants have in common? They all have multi-coloured parts – feathers, surfaces or petals – which change their hue depending on the angle you look at them. This physical phenomenon in...
Anne Osterrieder
Pitcher plant uses power of the rain to trap prey
The Nepenthes gracilis pitcher plant, found in southeast Asia, has a unique, semi-slippery wax crystal surface on the underside of the pitcher lid. Researchers have found that ants could cling to this surface under...
annbot
Plants with ants
Ant-plant mutualisms play key roles in the functioning of tropical ecosystems, and are often important components of trophic webs but the net benefits to each partner are rarely quantified: A Carnivorous Plant Fed by...
