New research shows how different species of plants evolve unique floral adaptations in order to transfer pollen on different regions of bats’ bodies, thus allowing multiple plant species to share bats as pollinators.

Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, and the findings will help conservationists understand – and hopefully address – the factors responsible for declining bumblebee populations.

In flowers called columbines, evolution of the length of nectar spurs--the long tubes leading to plants' nectar-happens in a way that allows flowers to match the tongue lengths of the pollinators that drink their nectar, biologists have found.

Wide flowers for bats, narrow flowers for hummingbirds in the cloudforests of Ecuador