Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

The Photuris firefly is an iconic genus of lightning bugs. Female species in this genus lure and eat other male fireflies.

Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.

There are many flowering bulbs that can be planted in the landscape here in Brevard, and amaryllis is one of the popular ones ...

Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without ...

Botany says anything that starts from a flower is classified botanically as a fruit. But in practice, we tend to classify foods by how we eat them. Therefore, we call a tomato a vegetable, because ...

The solstice marks the shortest day -- and longest night -- of the year, when the earth reaches the point in its annual ...

There are thousands of varieties of hosta — a leafy decorative plant that you’ve probably seen adorning outdoor spaces — being cultivated around the world, in a luxurious spread of colors, sizes, and ...

With the holidays quickly approaching, there’s nothing better for your gardening friends and family than a hot-off-the-press book. In my last blog, the gift list was aimed at the young gardeners in ...

Cycads are the oldest living group of seed-producing plants — and it seems they use infrared heat signals to attract specialized nocturnal weevils that deliver their pollen 1. Wendy Valencia-Montoya ...

USA TODAY Cars discussed GM Energy's future plans and new tech with the company's vice president Wade Sheffer. Sheffer explained that new GM Energy tech is part of an entire ecosystem built around the ...