Protect bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators by avoiding these practices.

"I don't like bullies, and we were being bullied in our own home." ...

Pexels Somewhere between the vegetable patch and the flower border, there’s a small crisis unfolding. The insects that keep ...

Native plants and insects evolved together making them the best match for each other. Nativar flowers often have reduced ...

A garden can do more than look pretty—it can work like a living support system for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects.

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

In Nepal's remote mountain district of Jumla, preparation for a family meal begins long before food reaches the cooking pot. It starts in terraced fields of beans, buckwheat, apples and pumpkins that ...

Scientists have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted in ...

If you're looking for a plant to add to your garden that will attract pollinators well into the summer months, then this ...

Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing ...

Bug zappers have long been touted as one of the most effective and affordable forms of pest control. In reality, most of them ...

A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems from ...