A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey Island reveals that birds were responsible for carrying most of the plants that colonized ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 92, No. 1 (Mar., 2009), pp. 7-13 (7 pages) In the past 30 years, western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), has become one ...

Plant Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 155, No. 1 (2022), pp. 16-28 (13 pages) Background and aims – The Bromeliaceae family has great importance in the maintenance of neotropical communities. In the ...

Sometime in the next week or so the UC Santa Barbara greenhouse will start smelling like a rotting corpse. But the campus police needn't worry; it's only the huge perennial herb Amorphophallus titanum ...

Although we've already heard about plants that mimic the smell of rotten meat or feces in order to attract pollen-spreading scavengers, botanists have now discovered that a certain plant really ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Amber -- ...

Exactly two years after he last bloomed, the IU biology department’s six foot, seven inch corpse flower — “Wally” to his friends — opened up again in the Biology Building greenhouse on E Third St.