News tagged with wild flower

Big clue to future climate change in small plants

Yarrow, it's called, this flowering plant also known as "little feather" for the shape of its leaves. Prized as a garden plant that repels unwanted insects while attracting beneficial ones, it also improves ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Bee research shows benefits of native plants, wild bees

(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists struggle to come to grips with Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious disease threatening to wipe out domesticated honey bees in the United States, they have begun to cast a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exotic plant species are more widespread than native on Boston Harbor Islands

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent findings by a team of Northeastern University ecologists studying plant life on the Boston Harbor Islands may advance societal efforts to stem the damage caused by invading exotic ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A cure for honey bee colony collapse?

For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with comple ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 2




Search results for wild flower


Under the Microscope #5 - Daisy

In this video Dr Beverley Glover explains how a daisy is a collection of tiny flowers grouped together to make it look like a single big flower.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green potential of our industrial past

Manipulating the soil in urban and industrial areas in order to capture more carbon from the atmosphere is the “best resource we have to begin to mitigate human CO2 emissions”, experts claim.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The wild early lives of today's most massive galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the APEX telescope, a team of astronomers has found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure

Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

A new wild ginger discovered from the evergreen forest of Western Ghats of South India

Intensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India by V.P. Thomas and M. Sabu of the University of Calicut, have resulted in the discovery of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research finds molecular 'maturation clock' that modulates branching architecture in tomato plants

The secret to pushing tomato plants to produce more fruit might not lie in an extra dose of Miracle-Gro. Instead, new research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that an increase in fruit yield ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

To turn up the heat in chilies, just add water

Biologists have learned in recent years that wild chilies develop their trademark pungency, or heat, as a defense against a fungus that could destroy their seeds. But that doesn't explain why some chilies ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Climate change: South Africa has much to lose

(AP) -- Imagine the savannas of South Africa's flagship Kruger Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good Hope without penguins. The Karoo desert's seasonal ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A corny turn for biofuels from switchgrass

Many experts believe that advanced biofuels made from cellulosic biomass are the most promising alternative to petroleum-based liquid fuels for a renewable, clean, green, domestic source of transportation ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Hungry mosquitoes fly farther than you think

How far does a mosquito fly? Harry Boerema wants to know.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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