Flowers have traditionally been used in many types of cooking: European, Asian, East Indian, Victorian English, and Middle Eastern. Early American settlers also used flowers as food. This site is a useful resource for growing, harvesting and cooking flowers picked by DemureArt 2 years ago

As part of Toyota's national marketing campaign for the third generation Prius launch in 2010, the company is "planting" giant solar-powered flowers in urban areas. The flowers generate electricity and provide free Wi-Fi for anyone passing by. picked by nateebiinature 4 months ago

Scientists at Cambridge University have found that bees make use of small cone-shaped cells on flower petals, which act like ‘velcro’ on their feet, to stick to flowers and collect nectar. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Honeybees warn each other to steer clear of dangerous flowers where they might get killed by lurking predators. Scientists made the discovery by placing dead bees upon flowers and then watching how newly arriving bees react to the danger. picked by kakana 4 months ago

"The stems are slimmer than human hair, and altogether there are 38 small white flowers on top," he said.
The flowers open in the mornings, then close when the sun grows strong. Each flower has a diameter of 1mm. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

The world is full of weird and wonderful flowers that sometimes look so strange that we find it difficult to imagine them actually growing in the wild. Some of these are unbelievably odd. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

Flowers were electrified with 80,000 volts of power to produce dazzling images of the natural world.

See picture gallery picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Designer purses disguised to look like flowers, stones and even a cactus are selling for as much as £1,000.

Kathleen Dustin, who creates the accessories from clay, said they are designed for women who are confident about their style. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Researchers have discovered the first fossil orchid, a 15 to 20-million-year-old pollen specimen encased in amber, in the Dominican Republic. It suggests that the first orchids bloomed about 84 million years ago. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

Great post about flowers that you can eat and look good on your salad. picked by shakadoo 3 years ago

A brief article discussing photographing flowers and depth of field. picked by thebassman 3 years ago

Why press flowers? Have you ever wanted beautiful flowers that would last forever? Using pressed flowers to express how one feels artistically is what pressed flower art is all about. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica, according to scientists who have recovered remains of life from that frozen continent. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Insects make up more than half of the known animal species on our planet and they can be found in all kinds of habitat and feed on all kinds of nutrients. They can even be used in evidence in court cases. So we are talking about forensic entomology. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

If you had to choose between a chance encounter with the following insects – hissing cockroaches, blister beetles, earwigs, Jerusalem crickets, Giant Wetas and the like – which ones would be your lesser evil? picked by bornbad 7 months ago

Tropical insects rather than polar bears could be among the first species to become extinct as a result of global warming, a study has found. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

As mentioned in my article entitled “Incredibly Awesome-Looking Garden and Most Sought Collection and Pet Insects” there are more than one million species of insects. They represent more than 90% of all the living organisms in the planet. In relation to that, they also have the greatest number of weird and freak-looking species. picked by cactushair 4 months ago

Insects Infestation Map and Model Overview with Dynamic Lighting. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Insects do everything we do - sometimes with much more aplomb! You may think this is mother nature at is rawest or a kind of bug porn! Choose for yourself, but ready or not - here we go! picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already ”˜occupied’. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago