Lukas VFN 🇪🇺 (@animalculum@scholar.social) Attached: 1 image These ancient #plants attract #pollinators by getting hot https://www.npr.org/2025/12/11/nx-s1-5637486/ancient-heat-producing-plants-glow-infrared-scent-not-color Infrared radiation is an ancient #pollination signal: Wendy Valencia-Montoya et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1728 "long before brightly colored flowers evolved, these plants would metabolically rev themselves up when they had pollen at the ready. Nocturnal #insects such as #beetles could then see the heat from afar and home in on the target. These heat-producing #cycads exist today in tropical forests around the world"

Zenbait landarek erradiazio infragorria, hau da, beroa, erabiltzen dute polinizatzaileak erakartzeko. https://scholar.social/@animalculum/115785994252595984 #zientzia #botanika #polinizazioa