When I first planted my garden, it felt like setting up a stage for a performance, where the main actors—bees and butterflies ...

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 ...

As part of Pollinator Week, University of Nevada, Reno Extension and partners are hosting activities to help Northern Nevadans incorporate pollinator-friendly spaces in their yards and gardens, and in ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! It is hard to believe but August is here. Next thing the kids will be back to school. It has been a hot and wet July, but hopefully things will dry up some ...

Pollinator gardens can enhance your property and well-being. Who doesn’t delight in the image of butterflies alighting on flowers outside your window? There has been an explosion of interest in ...

Now that the calendar is turning from May to June, proponents of the “no-mow May” movement can begin to mow their lawns once again. If you are not familiar with this movement, it suggests that ...

Pollinators play a vital role in our environment and food systems, yet populations in many areas are dwindling. As part of Pollinator Week, June 16 – 22, University of Nevada, Reno Extension and ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...

Pollinators are necessary to keep our ecosystems healthy. You’ll learn why and how you can help the cause in “For the Love of ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

In the summer of 2014, CU Boulder installed the University’s first landscape designed for and dedicated to pollinators. The landscape consists of barberry, currant, monarda, spirea, rudbeckia, yarrow, ...