They pollinate plants and eat insects. But they can also eat your seedlings. Deter them with this simple Dollar Tree hack.

Perennials are plants and flowers that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die every autumn and winter and then grow back in the spring. Jackson said there are some perennials ideal for ...

What flowers or plants can I plant to attract hummingbirds?  —Bruce Palmer, Algonquin Seeing a hummingbird is always a ...

Though the traditional American home might be surrounded by lawn, there’s a growing trend of people recognizing the negative ...

Owls, elks, woodlands and steppes were just some parts of the ecological world included in a recent assessment of Mesa Verde ...

Bamboos are grasses, so one would think that conventional grass killers would be up to the task. But even the best of them ...

You can also make your feeders more attractive by turning them into a fruit plate for visiting butterflies. Add pieces of ...

Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar hosts its annual hummingbird educational and shopping event to encourage an interest in ...

Don’t confuse them with the similarly-named, unrelated, larger and clear-winged lacewings, which are beneficial predators.

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate ...

Did you know that nearly 75% of the world’s flowering plants depend on pollinators to reproduce Without these tiny creatures, ...

At Veterans Acres in Crystal Lake, I discovered what I think are two different species — the Ohio spiderwort and the Virginia spiderwort.