But beyond their beauty, these birds also play a vital role in pollination – helping plants flourish and adding to the biodiversity of your garden. So, creating a hummingbird-friendly yard is ...

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

The hardy fuchsia is adapted for hummingbird pollination in a variety of ways. The bird is drawn to its red sepals, and the positioning of its pendulous flowers allows the bird, which can consume ...

Hummingbirds are migrating north, and Hoosiers could start seeing them in their yards and feeders as they find their summer homes. First arrivals start to show up in April seeking sweet sap from ...

During this floral feeding process, the birds pollinate many plants. These tiny birds are omnivores, sometimes feeding on insects and spiders. An adult ruby-throated hummingbird may eat twice its ...

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

Interactions with pollinators are thought to be one of the main selective forces underlying the origin of floral diversity. Species of Iochrominae are pollinated by a wide range of animals, including ...

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 ...

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 ...