Red Hong Yi decided to experiment with using just one material for an entire month, choosing fragile flowers for her medium. Inspired by the shape of each tiny petal and the notion that together they ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Iridescent flowers are never as dramatically rainbow-coloured as iridescent beetles, birds or fish, but their petals produce the perfect signal for bees, according to a new study published today in ...

Flowers are found around the world in a variety of environments, and in all kinds of sizes, shapes and colors. Flowers are collected for many different reasons. Scientists collect flowers to find ...

Flowers’ iridescent petals, which may look plain to human eyes, are perfectly tailored to a bee’s-eye-view so that these pollinators can find and recognise them more easily, research from the ...

Bees looking for nectar need to be able to spot flower petals and recognise which flowers are full of food for them. Iridescence – the shiny, colour-shifting effect seen on soap bubbles – makes flower ...