Southern California’s iconic Joshua trees are flowering months ahead of schedule, baffling scientists and raising fears about ...

The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

Joshua trees are jumping the gun on flowering this year, and researchers say the timing glitch could ripple through the Mojave Desert ecosystem. The spiky desert icons, found across California, Nevada ...

Photographers capturing earlier than expected blooming of the iconic Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert are being asked to ...

TICKABOO VALLEY -- It is the iconic plant of the Mojave Desert, its name immortalized with a national park and a U2 album. But there would be no Joshua trees at all without an easily overlooked moth ...

There is a very special relationship between the yucca tree and a tiny silver and white insect called the pronuba moth, also known as the yucca moth. Each different type or species of yucca has its ...

Yucca moths are most well known for their obligate pollination mutualism with yuccas, where pollinator moths provide yuccas with pollen and, in exchange, the moth larvae feed on a subset of the ...

An immense and towering thunderhead was gliding to the east, forming a stark backdrop for Crane Lake in the Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. I walked up a hill, ...

The flower of the soapweed yucca (Yucca glauca) is a simple affair. Three milky white petals enclose six stamens splayed around one fleshy green pistil. But when the sun goes down, this basic bloom ...

Researcher Chris Smith and field assistant Candace Fallon introduce Yucca moths to blooms on Joshua trees in the Mojave desert during research, Apr. 07. This iconic plant of the Mojave Desert also ...