Native bees come in a variety of sizes - some are big, some are small, and some are… even smaller! Enjoy these two vignettes ...

Essential pollinators include honeybees, native bees, beetles, flies, butterflies, moths and birds. They also support ...

It’s been quite the downer that central New York has not seen a weekend without rain or snow since the middle of November ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we get some tips for making your garden a haven not just for humans, but ...

Sunflowers attract bees with their large, pollen-filled centers and bright ... Undisturbed patches of bare soil and dead wood can serve as excellent nesting sites for ground-nesting and cavity-nesting ...

Humans are remarkably sensitive to the smell of geosmin, in particular. In water, it can be detected at concentrations as low ...

Its most distinguishable feature is its large size, ranging from 17 to 20 millimeters in worker bees ... nests consist of a singular comb and hang on the edges of twigs and branches low to the ...

Ground-nesting bees rely on undisturbed soil ... Diversify the Landscape — Even small changes make a big difference. Convert unused field corners or waterway buffers into native flowering ...

Whatever happened to the giant murder hornets? It seems like 2019 was so long ago, but that is when the Asian giant hornets ...

This honeydew is a great food source for a particular kind of fungus. We call it black mold, an apt name even if it is not ...

They like to build nests low to the ground or underground in abandoned burrows or the cavities of tree roots. They are ...