Discover how common household plants can naturally deter mosquitoes, offering a pleasant alternative to chemical sprays.

Some plants produce heat, which has long puzzled botanists. But a new study suggests that infrared radiation is an ancient ...

Are you plagued by mosquitoes every time you head outside? There's one smoky spot in your yard where you could be bite-free if you plant rosemary nearby.

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

“Pyrethrin is the most important insecticide in the world,” says Joel Maina Kibett, chief agriculture officer of Nakuru ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

Warmer, wetter weather conditions spurred by atmospheric pollution have created an uptick in viral carriers like mosquitoes.

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Tropical plants in Florida, including the breadfruit tree and dracaena fragrans may be creeping north as winters warm.

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...