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

These container-garden flowers and plants are popular with a wide range of bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...

Butterflies add some beauty to your garden, and other pollinators in general will help it grow. Therefore, some gardeners are ...

Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing ...

Scientists have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted in ...

Holyoke city leaders are considering changes to landscaping rules that would require native plants in some projects and ...

Thermogenesis is a process by which organisms generate internal heat. Although it is usually associated with animals, some plants have also developed this ability. This metabolic process allows ...

When building a pollinator-friendly garden, consider this long-blooming, lesser-known group of flowering plants to attract ...

We see them everywhere in spring: colorful flowers that seem to call out to bees, butterflies, and other insects. These visitors, called pollinators, are essential for the reproduction of flowering ...