Tag: Pollinator

  • Nation & World

    For this flower, it’s ready, set, launch

    Harvard researchers used high-speed video to not only quantify how fast the filaments in mountain laurel flowers move, but how they target likely pollinators.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Whirlybirds and maple syrup

    Perhaps botany, not boxing, is the real sweet science. Harvard Forest researchers are seeking to illuminate maple tree dynamics, investigating a possible link between autumn “mast seeding” and the sugar content of spring sap.

    4 minutes