Flowers smell bad (but not how you think!)

Stopping to smell the roses may seem like a purposeless pastime, but for pollinators, it’s their entire lives. Communicating largely through smell and pheromones, insects with limited vision rely heavily on recognizable scent profiles to identify and locate their lunch. Over millions of years, plants and pollinators have engaged in co–evolution — adapting and evolving […]

Flowers smell bad (but not how you think!) Read More »