Many gardeners swear you should not water in the midday because water droplets on plants can magnify the sun's rays and burn leaves. But the idea has never been rigorously tested, until now.

"Can a drop of water cause sunburn or fire? Leaves of certain plants are susceptible to leaf burn from too much sun." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 01 / 100111091226.htm ...

Burning a leaf with a water droplet does not happen on a smooth leaf, and is just barely possible on a hairy leaf. ^ to top. Smooth leaves.

Boxelder bugs only feed on box elder seeds and leaves, so they don't actually cause damage to most plants. "They appear in high numbers which leads people to get concerned when you see 50, 60 ...

The face of the Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr, has been seen in a droplet of water bouncing on a lotus leaf. By Tom Chivers 04 November 2009 • 1:55pm .

This droplet of water describes a near-perfect sphere. It does this because the surface of the leaf does not allow for a lot of wetting. Wetting isn’t just the thing that occurs with blue liquid ...

Borrowing from one of nature's most water-repellent surfaces--the leaf of the lotus plant--scientists have developed a simple, inexpensive way to create synthetic coatings with exceptional anti ...

The extreme water repellency is due, in part, to roughness at the nanoscale and microscale levels — which is created as the coating cures — as with a lotus leaf, each water droplet sits on top ...