When you’re venturing in the woods or your own backyard vegetable garden, it’s likely that you’ll come across plants or flowers that you’re not aware of. While a traditional solution would be to get a ...

A tree. Tick. Leaves shaped like a hand. Tick. The edges of the leaves saw-like. I guess so. And that's it. According to my ForestXplorer app, which promises to help "discover the trees" around me, ...

The advent of deep learning has greatly expanded the frontiers of plant leaf image recognition and identification. Contemporary methodologies integrate convolutional neural networks with traditional ...

Explore U.S. guided walks with naturalists to identify autumn flora, learn about native plants, and connect with nature this ...

Whether you’re like me and my family, who love growing plants, or you want to know what wildflowers are in your yard, if your dog just consumed something that’s headed toward a hefty vet bill, or you ...

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Last fall, I decided to challenge myself by enrolling in the notoriously difficult course ENVIRON 436, also known as Woody Plants. This class focuses on one thing — the identification of Michigan’s ...

1. Bees use floral cues, such as odour, colour, size and shape, to discriminate and recognize flowers. The interplay between visual and olfactory cues in social as well as in solitary bee species is ...