As gardeners have been waking up to the pollinator crisis, many have been planting bee-friendly veggies and flowers and keeping neonicotinoid insecticides away from their plots. But some plants being ...

Boost the bee and pollinator appeal of your lawn by incorporating microclover, self-heal, creeping thyme, crocus, grape hyacinths and other bee-friendly flowering plants in your lawn. You’ll create ...

Apologies to Shakespeare, but Carbondale has answered the question of whether it’s nobler to be or … to bee. That’s better than a B if grading, considering that about a third of food we eat comes ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. While we’ve all been focused on growing a bee-friendly habitat in our gardens by planting pollinator friendly varieties, there’s something else that’s ...

We don’t want to kill your bee-loving buzz, but if you buy “bee-friendly” plants and seedlings from Home Depot or similar stores, then you could be unwittingly killing the bees that you’re trying to ...

KIND Healthy Snacks used the recent World Bee Day to announce it is on track to source the majority — 51% — of its almonds from bee-friendly farms by the end of the year. The announcement follows the ...

Ahh, spring at UC Santa Barbara — time to shake off winter’s weariness and delight in the balmy weather, the fresh air and the greenery. Turns out students aren’t the only ones enjoying the warm ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bumblebees are buzzing round my dark purple oregano. I would not have invited them so close to a table and ...

Michigan gardeners can promote local ecosystems with bee-friendly gardens in 2025. The vital pollinators are in need of conservation as their populations decline. As warm weather finally begins to ...

Lawns, people love 'em or loath 'em. I'm not in the group that thinks all lawns are evil. There's a time and a place for grass. Lawns provide cooling effects, places to play and a spot for your eye to ...

Biologists at the University of Newcastle combined the venom of the Australian funnel spider with snowdrop plant protein to make the pesticide Pesticide was fed to bees and had next to no effect on ...