A European giant hornet rests on a vibrant thistle, its bright yellow and black stripes standing out against the soft ...

Rafflesia cantleyi is one of the strangest organisms on Earth. It has no leaves, no roots, and no stem—only thread-like ...

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Pollinators, including bees, butterflies, and beetles, shape global food production and support vast natural ecosystems. For years, efforts to protect these critical species have leaned on broad ...

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” Lost Science Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her ...

When Greg Graves planted 1,000 camas bulbs in his Eatonville garden last fall — using an electric auger drill — it was quite an undertaking. But come May, when the plot erupted in waves of sky blue ...

A key reason behind the recent push toward native plants is that natives tend to be the most attractive and beneficial to pollinators. But even some native plants are more useful to bees, butterflies, ...

DELAWARE - Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is participating in the national "Parks for Pollinators" campaign. The campaign is focused on raising awareness about ...

As summer draws toward an end, many flowers are fading. But busy bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds and other wildlife are still hungry for pollen and nectar. “Late-season blooms are just as ...

About 70% of the world’s crop production relies on pollinator insects for survival. That makes it helpful to know how many pollinators are out there. As a citizen scientist, you can participate in ...

ST. GEORGE — St. George resident Colleen Winters transformed her yard into a pollinator paradise, alive with vibrant native blooms, with some help from a state program that was recently made permanent ...