One of the largest threats to bees is a lack of safe habitat where they can build homes and find a variety of nutritious food sources.It’s no secret that healthy bee and butterfly populations are ...
Editor’s note: This blog post from N.C. State News Service is part of a series of interviews with NC State University experts exploring whether homeowners in North Carolina could make a difference for ...
For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...
The female of the species has devil-like black horns, and a taste for extremely rare pollen. But until now, this Australian ...
Pots of scented herbs on a brick patio with a metal watering can - sanddebeautheil/Shutterstock While the warm, balmy days of summer are excellent for enjoying some ...
“I had a long way to go with wasps and hornets,” Tawnya Kiernan told me, as her husband, Mike Kiernan, drove us north along Vermont’s iconic Route 100, past the ski town of Stowe; it was late August, ...
Entomologists have now shown that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination. They found that the less common bees often visited specific plants ...
The problem with climate change isn’t just the temperature – it’s also how fast the climate is changing today. Historically, Earth’s climate changes have generally happened over thousands to millions ...
THE POLLEN HAS DEFINITELY BEEN SOMETHING TO SNEEZE ABOUT THIS ALLERGY SEASON. YES, INDEED. ERIN BURNETT SUITED UP TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BENEFITS. ALL WEEK LONG WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE DOWNSIDES ...