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I’ve always believed that scent can evoke certain feelings, and I’m not just talking about perfumes. The aroma of specific locations can make you feel calmer, happier or even more energetic. Scenting ...

Although we've already heard about plants that mimic the smell of rotten meat or feces in order to attract pollen-spreading scavengers, botanists have now discovered that a certain plant really ...

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Moonflowers open at night and waft their powerful scent throughout the summer garden. Photo from Flickr by Barbara Ecksein, CC BY 2.0, provided by OSU Extension Service (Barbara Ecksein) Summertime ...

Some pollinators not only provide fertilization services for flowering plants, they also lay their eggs on the plants' leaves after they have visited the flowers. Voracious caterpillars hatch from ...

Although a flower's bouquet can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, the tobacco hornworm moth needs to smell just a handful to identify its favorite source of nectar, the sacred datura flower. It is ...

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