It is remarkable how, after our prolonged heat, a few late rains and cooler temperatures have triggered roses to resume blooming. It is as if the roses, in defiance of a frost that is just a few weeks ...

TDA Cockerell, an entomologist at the University of Colorado who specialized in bees, was also an avid fossil collector and was the first to discover and describe many of the fossil insect from ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Plastic has become ubiquitous in modern life and its accumulation as waste in the environment is sounding warning bells for the health of humans and wildlife. In a recent study, ...

Question: Something is cutting semicircles in the edge of my rose leaves. What is it and do I need a control? Answer: Neatly cut and removed semicircles of leaf sections from rose and other foliage is ...

Question: My azaleas suddenly started losing their leaves. I saw some small, green things that look like caterpillars on the branches, but after spraying them with Bacillus thuringiensis, they are ...

A bee looks like she is riding a flying broomstick as she takes a piece of leaf she has carefully cut back to her nest. The leaf-cutter bee uses her sharp jaws to cut perfect semi-circles out of ...

Feeling overwhelmed by fall leaf clean-up? The best thing to do with all those leaves may actually be nothing at all. Leaf litter may seem like little more than the mess left after trees become bare.

Scientists have noted instances of leaf-cutter bees using plastic waste to construct their nests and one research group suggested such behavior could be an 'ecologically adaptive trait' and beneficial ...

Question: My azaleas suddenly started losing their leaves. I saw some small, green things that look like caterpillars on the branches, but after spraying them with Bacillus thuringiensis, they are ...