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Discovering mysterious eggs while gardening can be unsettling, but they might be snake eggs. These eggs are soft, leathery, ...
According to British Red Squirrel.org, a survey by the Forestry Commission of vulnerable woodlands in Great Britain estimated ...
A fun project you can do outdoors that will upgrade all your future outside time is to DIY a repurposed bird feeder.
Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.
In your endeavor to attract more birds to your yard, you may have purchased a birdhouse only to find they aren't using it. Here's why and what to do about it.
In the fall, it’s safe to give nesting boxes a good cleaning. While birds won’t use them for eggs, they will use them as ...
Angela Laws, an endangered species conservation biologist, helps take care of a community-led garden dedicated to attracting pollinators in Sacramento’s South Natomas neighborhood.
I am going to stand on my native pollinator soapbox for one more week. Two weeks ago, I wrote about why native populations of ...
Butterfly weed’s standout orange flowers bloom from early summer to fall, attracting hummingbirds, native bees, and ...
For the third year in a row, I have found a beautiful queen moss/large carder bee in the polytunnel in my garden in mid-April ...
This is an alderfly, which is usually found resting in large numbers on waterside vegetation or flying, rather weakly, on ...
When I walked over to fill the bird feeders I stopped to smell the blossom of a beautiful yellow peony. You don’t see yellow peonies too often, even though they were hybridized back in 1948 by a ...