Garry Kessler News Today

With the gift-giving season nearly upon us, the question once again is: how to give nature to the special people in your life?

There really are green bees. Many are a metallic green. If you haven’t seen one, it’s probably because they’re so tiny.

Virginia meadow-beauty (Rhexis virginica) grows in wet or moist sandy soil. Read more in this month's Nature Notes.

The corpse flower typically blooms for 2-3 days after many years of repeatedly producing huge leaves and then dying back to the ground.

When something colorful flutters in a garden or long grass, do you think “butterfly”? Or perhaps “moth”? Or maybe even “day-flying moth”?

Neighbors form weeding groups to keep invasive plants, once desirable and sold in catalogs, from destroying the area's biodiversity.

Instead of keeping an eye out for the usual first-wildflower suspects like skunk cabbage or coltsfoot try looking for a new contender