Norfolk’s most widespread and commonly encountered species is the bee orchid. They can ‘suddenly’ appear in garden lawns or ...

Many of our 30 or so species of native orchids are certainly attention-grabbing. They can be found in the most unlikely of places, with the highly distinctive bee orchid found in disturbed road or ...

Most orchid bees, like this Euglossa paisa, have metallic coloration. S. Ramirez, 2005. When scientists delve into studies of the co-evolution of plants and their pollinators, they have something ...

They collect scents from more than 700 species of plants, and they pollinate an array of them. “The bees and plants all interact,” Ramírez says, “and we know very little about how those ...

An orchid found in China takes the plant's famed trickery to new level. Aug. 12, 2009 — -- Charles Darwin would have loved it. Scientists have found that an orchid on the Chinese island of ...