Tag: Insects - Page 3
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Four Plants That are Butterfly Magnets in the Garden
Want butterflies in your garden this year? Plant these four butterfly magnets in your garden this year.
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Amazing Garden Sculptures Made with LEGO Bricks at Reiman Gardens
Reiman Gardens in Iowa hosts the first ever public garden display of LEGO brick sculptures.
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Most Popular Articles of May: Shark Eating Only Lettuce, Dew-Covered Insects, and More
Florence may be the world's first vegetarian shark. We also have stunning dew-covered insects, a chicken coop made of beer cans, students suspended for biking to school, and more.
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Striking Recycled Art Sculptures Double as Habitat for Solitary Bees
If the typical "bee box" at your garden center is too boring for you, check out Zen Industrial's unique works of art.
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Bees Prefer Working Class Gardens Over Affluent Gardens
Want to help bees? New research points to them preferring simple flowers in gardens over hybrids and cultivars.
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Harvest the Rain with these 4 DIY Rain Barrels
Do rainy days get you down? Build a rain barrel and look forward to the rain.
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Why 'Kill it with Fire' Should Not be Your Reaction to a Honeybee Swarm
It's not a bee attack -- it's just a bee swarm. Here are tips on how to deal with one.
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Why You Shouldn't Buy Ladybugs for Natural Pest Control in your Garden
Got ladybugs? Encourage native ladybugs in your garden instead of buying wild-harvested ladybugs to manage pests.
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A Fashion Line Designed to Prevent Malaria
Making its debut at the Cornell Fashion Collective spring show, a high-tech hooded bodysuit is made of fabric embedded with insecticides to ward off mosquitoes infected with malaria.
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Solar-Powered Firefly Jar Creates Summer Fun without Killing Bugs
A DIY kit simulates the light of fireflies in a jar and doesn't require capturing the insects.
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Amazing Macro Photographs of Insects Covered in Dew
Creepy crawlies you'd usually steer clear of become jewel-like just after the rain.
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Man Relocates 30,000 Bees Found Living in an Attic
Up until recently, Victoria Clayton and her boyfriend were under the impression that they were the only ones sharing their charming home in Cape May, New Jersey -- but they couldn't bee more wrong.
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Honeybees Self-Medicate With Anti-Fungal Resins When Under Threat
A new study reveals just how sophisticated honeybees' self-defence mechanisms are, and casts doubt on human efforts to control them.
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Pesticides and High Fructose Corn Syrup Recreate "Classic" Colony Collapse Disorder in Experiments
The evidence keeps piling up that neonicotinoid pesticides are contributing to Colony Collapse Disorder. It turns out that high fructose corn syrup may play a part too.
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The Week in Animal News: Life on the Midway Atoll, Glowing Fish and More
Jaymi took some amazing shots on her trip to Midway, including lots of the wildlife there. Genetically modified fish make glowing sushi, rare orangutans could be gone in weeks and more.
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Two New Studies Show Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees
As evidence mounts that neonicotinoid pesticides are harmful to bees, the denials from Bayer CropSciences just keep on coming,
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Insecticide Maker Continues Charm Offensive on Beekeepers
Bayer CropScience is sending out its experts to talk to beekeeping communities. At least one beekeeper was decidedly unimpressed.
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Birth Control For Insects: Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in the Florida Keys?
A British company may hold trials involving genetically modified male mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Opponents say, “We cannot stress strongly enough how dangerously misguided this application is. "
