Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

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Want to try butterfly gardening? Plant butterfly host plants to give caterpillars food and a place to grow through their lifecycle.

It's common knowledge that the monarch butterfly is in trouble. However, like the causes themselves, the story of why the ...

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With their wings flapping faster than the eye can see and hearts thumping at full speed, hummingbirds make their annual migration north each spring. These tiny, mighty, jewel-toned birds are ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Santa Barbara, Calif. (April 10, 2025)—Stop by the Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture (SEEAG) booth at the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival and take home free seedlings courtesy of Plantel ...

Among the plants that can fill that role with immediate blooms are zinnias, mistflower, porter weed, pentas, lantanas, tropical milkweed, butterfly weed and salvias. It is getting to be the end of ...

The leaves of Calotropis procera, commonly called giant milkweed, bomu bomu (Yoruba ... The list of medicinal plants for treating Ondo and Ogun States is quite different. In Ondo state, this ...

Planting wildflowers and native plants during the spring often marks the best time to see the naturally occurring plants bloom for most of the year. The perennial plants bloom in late spring, filling ...