Rita Lovell didn’t plant the yucca that stole her heart. It volunteered, showing up on its own in the dry, rocky soil just ...

some moths have become key specialists, pollinating plants that few others can. Example: The yucca moth and the yucca plant. "No other animal can pollinate this plant," says Hershcovich.

Turns out that two different species of yucca moths pollinate Joshua trees when they lay eggs. And the length of the canal corresponds to that of the local moths' egg-laying appendages.

2006). Other insect species, such as yucca moths, lay their eggs within the yucca flowers they pollinate, and some, but not all, of the seeds produced are consumed by the developing moth larvae ...