Whether it is flowers sprouting in the spring, cicadas mating in the blistering heat of summer, or caterpillars hatching to feed on their favorite host plant, across the natural world, the timing of ...

Coevolution is a relationship of reciprocal natural selection and evolutionary change between two species, such as predator and prey, host and parasite, or plant and pollinator. Biologists have long ...

Check out Yucca rostrata! The texture, the flowers, the pollination story, what’s not to love! Supervisory Horticulturist Sarah shares about this Yucca and its pollinator. Yucca rostrata has a ...

One tends to associate yucca with the Gulf coast, American southwest, or Mexico. Their frequent appearance here in Western North Carolina lends an exotic touch to our lush mountainous landscape. I ...

A study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the flowering time of plants, with implications for food ...

The Karner blue butterfly is one of many species of butterflies that depend on specific host plants. Because the caterpillars only feed on blue lupine plants, they depend on hatching at the right time ...