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Tasmania's native bees aren't as notorious as the Tassie devil or the swift parrot. But these tiny, unassuming and strangely beguiling bugs are incredibly important to the state's forests and fields.

We all know bees are vital pollinators. But they’re also art critics, social learners, dancers and so much more.

If there is one take-home message Evans hoped those coming out to the Native Bees 101 seminar at Genesis Place would remember, it’s that everyone has a role to play in helping conserve Alberta’s native bee species.

There are plenty of reasons to head to Morris Arboretum this spring. 

Co-flowering plants can experience an array of interactions, ranging from facilitation to competition, the direction and strength of which are often dependent on the relative abundance and diversity of the plant species involved and the foraging behavior of their pollinators. Understanding interactions between plant–pollinator networks and how they change over time is particularly important within agricultural systems, such as apples, that flower en masse and that also contain non-crop co-flow...

State Botanical Garden educates Georgians about plants and pollinators.

Many food crops depend on animal pollination to set fruit. In light of pollinator declines there is growing recognition of the need for agro-ecosystems that can sustain wild pollinator populations, ensuring fruit production and pollinator conservation into the future. One method of supporting resident wild pollinator populations within agricultural landscapes is to encourage and maintain floral diversity. However, pollinator visitation to crop plants can be affected either positively (facilitati...

Dear Helen: My family is still in the process of planting our first vegetable garden. From reading your column, I gather that you have a more extensive area than we do for planting food crops.

Like many home gardeners observing how delayed the growing season has been this spring, I’ve been online almost daily, checking for indicators of summery weather on the horizon to advance growth and deliver the promise of vine-ripened tomatoes

Kerncrest Audubon Society will meet Thursday, May 19, at 7 p.m., at the Maturango Museum.