You may be familiar with the health benefits (both physical and mental) that gardening can provide you as an individual, but at least one type of gardening in particular has the potential to help all ...

A pollinator is an insect or bird (or occasionally a mammal) that pollinates plants by transferring pollen from one plant to another. The movement of pollen grains from one plant to another is a way ...

This May, homeowners nationwide are putting their mowers in park, not out of laziness, but to help bees, butterflies and other pollinators wake up to a safer, more flower-filled world. The ...

Beautiful, diverse, ephemeral and mysterious. Those were just some of the words Micah Kloppenburg used to describe pollinators. Kloppenburg has been particularly engaged this week; he's a pollinator ...

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 ...

June is national pollinator month, and the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens wants to share information on how you can create a good environment for bees and other pollinators. On Wednesday, the Betty Ford ...

Plentiful precipitation means dandelions are growing like … weeds. They can be unsightly, but also support pollinators at a time when bees and butterflies have few options. To pull them or not to pull ...

Did you know that honey bees are not native to the United States?

Fall is in the air. Chicago evenings have a crisp breeze. But something has been bugging Annie Andrews. Specifically, bees and wasps and a whole lot of sneezing. “It’s gotten to a point, like, I ...