Most flowers are made to smell delightful — all the better to lure in pollinators, such as bees. ... The inside of the spathe is the color of red meat, for added effect.

The flies find that smell attractive because they typically dine on the drippings of honeybees that are in the clutches of a ... This flower smells like a bee under attack (2016 ...

The corpse flower is about to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. Visitors can't wait to catch a whiff.

Psst--smell my feet. Bullet2015/Fotolia. Bumblebees are pretty smart little creatures, but even they probably can’t keep track of all the different flowers they visit in a given day.So how do ...

A one-of-its-kind flower species in Greece mimics the smell of rotting insects to attract and trap flies in order use their pollination services. Photo by T. Rupp, B. Oelschlägel, K. Rabitsch et al.

When it comes to zeroing in on nectar-rich flowers, worker honeybees rely heavily on their expert sense of smell. Honeybees can't smell flowers well amid pollution, study says - Los Angeles Times ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 29, 2015) A recent study has provided supporting evidence to previous work showing that sublethal doses of imidicloprid, a toxic neonicotinoid insecticide, impairs olfactory ...

When 7-year-old Corpsey blooms, it will be the first time the plant does into a flower. Kevin Hauser said it will be only the sixth to bloom ever in the state of Michigan. But that's not all.

Air pollution is changing the way flowers smell, leaving pollinators lost and the ecosystem in peril By . Alex Mitchell. Published Feb. 9, 2024, 8:19 p.m. ET. Explore More ...