Hummingbirds and bees are both valuable assets to your garden. These strong pollinators play a vital role in the ecosystem, sustaining plants' natural life cycles by transferring pollen from flower to ...
Botanists from the University of Copenhagen and the UK set out to find the best flower combinations for bees and hoverflies. The results make it easier for garden owners and municipalities, among ...
Learn important facts about native bees. Plant your garden with native bees in mind and help these powerful pollinators ...
In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you're a gardener, you might want ...
Like all pollinators, bees are critical to garden health. But don't leave it to chance. We can help you to strategically ...
You might associate bees with lush summer gardens and meadows. But this fall, one northern Illinois prairie is abuzz with the ...
Anonymous. A. As gardeners we are always looking for different varieties of plants to add interest and diversity to our ...
Out of over 20,000 bee species worldwide, most of us are probably familiar with worker bees that live in hives and nests, like honeybees and bumblebees. This adorable post from sociaty shows exhausted ...
Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...