Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.

The flower chafer group includes beautiful beetles such as: green (and occasionally yellow) and black fiddler beetles (Eupoecila australasiae) big buzzy cowboy beetles (Chondropyga dorsalis), and the ...

Besides, storms were on the way. When I stepped outside after supper to see whether setting my alarm made any sense, all I ...

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New housing and shopping areas are often desirable improvements to any human community. But what benefits one species can be ...

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Protect your cucumbers, cantaloupe, squash, and pumpkins from cucumber beetles and the plant disease they can spread. If you ...

In late winter and early spring, a select group of plants rise from the earth, grow, procreate and die in a race against emerging forest canopies. Like their amphibious cousins (or college ...

The word comes from the Greek “phaino” (to show or appear) and “logos” (to study). Phenology works because certain events ...

Chaenomeles speciosa ‘moerloosei’ is an ornamental quince which is later flowering than other varieties and has cup-shaped, ...