Plants that attract bees are necessary for a thriving ecosystem. Here's the trees, shrubs and flowers pollinators prefer most. I had the opportunity to evaluate a university campus recently for ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Whether you're gardening in a window box, on a balcony or in a compact backyard, attracting bees to your outdoor space really helps the eco system as well as your own garden. By growing the best ...

Unless they show up as car-sized beasts devouring people and property, insects seldom surface as the topic of conversation around the coffee pot. However, the plight of honeybees is now a part of our ...

That clover and dandelion in the lawn may no longer be the hallmark of a lethargic lawn-owner. It may signal instead that you’re a trendy pollinator-helper. The latest buzz in the movement to aid ...

Bee populations are in decline, and Cheerios wants to help. So far, so good. But they are sending free packets of wildflower seeds to people all over the country—and some of the flowers included are ...

Many supposedly bee-friendly flowers and home garden plants being sold by major retailers have been pretreated with pesticides implicated in bee declines, according to a study by Friends of the Earth ...