Most pollinators work under our radar and are easily overlooked when a garden receives the admiring human gaze. A closer look into the flower of a plant in bloom may reveal a small invertebrate ...

Raindrops have subsided, buds are popping, and almond bloom is in full swing around here.  It’s my second favorite time of year, right behind pumpkin spice and everything nice. For almond farmers, ...

A Worcester beekeeper, who provides large-scale pollination services to agricultural farms, reported a loss of more than 600 of his colonies on a single blueberry farm.

With the honey bee crisis continuing it's even more important to encourage native bees to ensure good pollination in the backyard vegetable garden and orchard. Just one hive is plenty for the average ...

Migrating monarchs live about ten months, summer ones about three weeks. Instead of embarking on their journey north in mid-April as they have for eons, they now leave the mountains of Mexico to the U ...

With that in mind, here’s a little shortlist of exceptionally reliable, versatile ornamental shrubs for the spring garden.