Science news articles about 'wild orchids'

... by 2010. Economic factors, including illegal collecting and selling of wild orchids by domestic or foreign "orchid hunters", along with increasing consumer demand for orchids, also contribute to the ...

... suburbanisation. The heritage site, near the village of Downe, would encompass the banks where Darwin gathered wild orchids to propagate and study in his glasshouses, the bog where ...

... Research Institute, Combes studied 10 species of wild orchid bees that fly at high speeds for ... in mating displays that attract females. Because male orchid bees are so strongly attracted by scents, ...