PORTLAND, ORE. — A great flower shape for a moth trying to get a drink in the dark turns out to be awful from the plant’s point of view. Offering hawk moths (Manduca sexta) a range of 3-D printed ...

Until now, scientists thought that flowers which don’t produce floral volatiles are invisible to nocturnal pollinators, such as hawk moths. Such “deceptive flowers” might benefit from neighboring, ...

Max Planck researchers show that Manduca sexta recognizes the scent of flowers matching its proboscis and thereby optimizes energy gain Biologists use the term “pollination syndrome” when they explain ...

If you walk through a field of fireweed, you might see spittle bugs, aphids and — if you are lucky — a hawk moth. They hover at flowers on their rather narrow wings, extending their “tongues” to ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to a study by Konstanz ...

Flowers without scent produce fewer seeds, although they are visited as often by pollinators as are flowers that do emit a scent. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, ...

JENA, Germany, May 18 (UPI) --New research shows the hawk moth is attracted to the bouquet of the best-fitting flowers -- evidence of the power of the co-evolutionary process. Charles Darwin long ago ...

Manduca sexta hawk moth use their proboscis to smell the floral volatiles when they visit flowers, report scientists. They discovered the olfactory neurons involved in the perception of these ...

Max Planck researchers show that Manduca sexta recognizes the scent of flowers matching its proboscis and thereby optimizes energy gain Charles Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, was an ...

Using olfactory neurons on their proboscis, moths weigh which flowers to visit. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, showed that floral scent is crucial for ...

Max Planck researchers show that Manduca sexta moths acquired the highest energy gain when they visited flowers that matched the length of their proboscis. The moths were supported in their choice of ...