Many insects, including bees, spiders, and ants, dislike peppermint oil. To keep pollinators away from your living spaces, ...

Entomologist Wizzie Brown advises residents to prepare for increased insect activity this spring, while emphasizing that the majority of insects found in the landscape are beneficial to the ...

The buzz around pollinators keeps getting louder, and for good reason. Bees, butterflies, beetles, and even bats hold entire ...

Get a honey bee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s, at least, how it works in clean ...

Air pollution is a widespread issue affecting millions of people around the world, causing disastrous effects. But we humans are not the only ones to suffer from unclean air. In the last decade, a ...

Pollination, the movement of pollen from the anther (male) of one flower to the pistil (female) of another flower is ...

Companion plants play various roles in the vegetable garden community. The cucumber companion plants featured here promote ...

Orchids are masters of deception, using visual mimicry, chemical signals, and complex structures to manipulate pollinators ...

As a designated National Geographic Explorer, Bertie Gregory traverses the globe documenting wild life in all its complexity.

The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly due to a woeful combination of climate change, ...

Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss and invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator ...