Carpenter bees bore round holes into wood siding and rails. Here's how to identify them and keep them from doing serious ...

Spring has sprung and you want to clean up the garden. But wait! Leave stalks and leaves alone because they are beneficial ...

A better understanding of how pollinators and other beneficial insects work — and their diminishing numbers — means factoring in how pulling away dead garden material can impact these vulnerable ...

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

Aucklanders who feel like they have been dealing with more wasps are not imagining it. An ecology professor said a long, dry ...

Every Spelling Bee puzzle is hand-curated with a wide-ranging audience in mind. Is there a word you want to see included in ...

It's not hard to do and makes a big difference to our native bees, 25% of which nest in cavities like hollow stems. (The other 75% create nests in the ground.) If you’re wondering when exactly in ...

Wait until apple and pear trees finish blooming. In the northeast United States, apricots, peaches, plums, and cherries will ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

A long, dry summer has led to “extremely high” numbers of wasps around the country – and Kiwis are being warned not to attack ...

“Wasp population dynamics tend to be cyclical, so a low year is followed by a high year – and this year the stars have ...