Knowable Magazine reports on how harnessing the heater to attract pollinators may have first happened more than 300 million ...

In female cones, the emission of 1,3-octadiene peaked at milder, attractive levels that beckoned pollen-bearing weevils fleeing the male cones. Salzman suspects that the cycads’ heat may do more ...

In female cones, the emission of 1,3-octadiene peaked at milder, attractive levels that beckoned pollen-bearing weevils fleeing the male cones. Salzman suspects that the cycads’ heat may do more ...

Cycad plants make cones that bear either pollen or eggs; these male or female cones always grow on different plants. Salzman, who specializes in cycads, ...

The scientists used a vacuum and filter to capture the volatile chemicals emitted by the Zamia cycads at hourly intervals; they logged the temperature of the cycad cones, videoed the weevils coming ...

Cones of White-haired Cycad, Kirstenbosch: Cones of the White-haired Cycad, (Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi), in the cycad garden at Kirstenbosch national botanic gardens in Cape Town. Cycads are ...