Keri: Students of the govt primary school at the rehabilitation colony of Kholpe came across a unique orchid that mimics a female bee sitting on the flower. It is also known as a bee orchid. While ...

According to Xerces Society, bumble bees pollinate wild flowering plants and crops. They do not depend on one flower type to survive. But it is not that way with some plants. Some rare plants that ...

Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths to attract members of the opposite sex, including the use of aliases and lies. As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also ...

Several kinds of oil-secreting orchids share the same pollinator by placing pollen on different parts of the bee's body. Here the long-legged oil-collecting bee Rediviva longimanus inspects the ...

Females of an orchid bee, Euglossa viridissima, recently naturalized in southern Florida, routinely collect resin to construct their brood cells from the flowers of two Clusia (Clusiaceae) and two ...

A recent study finds orchid bee diversity is supported by forest patches along rivers near oil palm plantations in Brazil. The study lends evidence that remnant patches of forest support the movement ...