Red flowers have a ‘magic trait’ to attract birds and keep bees away
- Written by Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
Joshua J. CottenFor flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing than anyone realised, and might even involve a little bit of magic.
In our new paper, published in Current Biology, we discuss how...





