GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- Butterflies aren’t just beautiful, they’re essential to our ecosystem and our food supply. New data reveals the U.S. butterfly population has plunged by 22% 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 ...
Dr. Ronnie Brathwaite is Senior Agriculture Officer, Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Unfortunately, pollinators are ...
Pollinators – like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds – are indispensable to the world as we know it. They fertilize plants, and that includes most of the plants we eat. But pollinator populations ...
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 ...
Did you know that how and when you cut back your perennials and tidy your landscape matters to pollinators? I just read a fact sheet from the Xerces Society that opened my eyes to more ways to help ...
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 ...