ROMEOVILLE, IL — The Forest Preserve District of Will County will hold its Pollinator Party, featuring bats, birds and more, on June 13 at Isle a la Cache Museum. The free, all-ages event will take ...

When we think about helping bees and butterflies, we usually think about adding things to the landscape: buying more plants, building insect hotels, or spreading bags of seed. But since ...

Pollinators are a necessary part of keeping our ecosystem thriving. Here is a simple DIY using an old plastic nursery pot ...

Every gardener, from the flowered expert to the budding enthusiast, dreads the day they go to check on their crop and find something’s been helping itself to the leaves. Pests are known to eat away at ...

As 30 Days Wild wraps up for another year, Louise Baker from Your Health Group tells us more about how residents of their ...

Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral candidate Pallavi Shakya of the lab of nematologist Shahid Siddique, who won “Best Student/Early Career Talk” at the 36th Symposium of the European Society of ...

The University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Program is a volunteer program open to anyone with the desire to learn and to share information with others about research-based landscape and ...

Wild Anthophora plumipes (hairy-footed flower bee) is a wild, solitary apid bee with an annual life cycle. It has no history of domestication or breeding like honey bees (Apis mellifera) or bumble ...

What is important here is not to confuse bee hotels with Japanese honeybee hives. A bee hotel is a nesting site for solitary flower bees, made from tubular materials such as reeds, bamboo, or holes in ...