Minnesota has been conducting experiments to see whether planting pollinator-attractive flowers like borage can improve ...
MY children noticed with much interest, last autumn, the curious manner that the bees attacked the flowers of the Antirrhinum majus, making a hole at the bottom of the corolla of the flower near ...
Oregano is an abundant source of nutrition for honeybees and other pollinators. They are easily grown from seeds sown indoors ...
My new research shows that bees, in particular, don’t really care about the landscape surrounding flower gardens. They seem to zero in on the particular types of flowers they like, no matter ...
the population of bees shot up over nine times. Meanwhile, in plots treated with fertiliser mix excluding nitrogen, a relatively high number of pollinators and flowers were found as well ...
Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study ...
Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best nectar-producing plants for honey bees and other pollinators ...
Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie ...
For decades scientists assumed these insects looked so much like orchids as a form of camouflage. But they were wrong. They look this way because they're deceptive predators.
Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do ...