Question: I keep seeing fast moving, tiny bees in my garden. Do I need to worry about my grandchildren getting stung? Note: The Douglas County Master Gardener Plant Clinic offers free insect ...

研究旨在评估反映植被异质性的环境参数（如树木和灌木的结构、组成异质性等）与鸟类和食蚜蝇（Syrphidae）物种组成和多样性之间的关系。该研究成果发表在《Biodiversity and Conservation》上，为理解林牧系统中生物多样性的维持机制提供了重要依据，对林牧系统 ...

But unlike bees, they don’t utilize ultraviolet coloration as guides. Syrphid flies, often called flower flies, are some of the first spring pollinators showing up on my flowering plants ...

Beneficials in the field are either predators or parasitoids. Predators include ladybird beetles, ground beetles, lacewings, syrphid flies, aphid midges and yellow jacket wasps that chase down the ...

Beyond the beloved butterflies, bees, and ladybirds, a hidden world of less glamorous, even alarming-looking insects plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy gardens. Anton Rosenfeld, research ...

The larvae of ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, lacewings and syrphid flies eat aphids and other pest insects voraciously. And they have no side effects in your yard. (Here are some pictures of some ...

If you don't cut all your dill but let it bloom, its golden umbels will be packed with tiny, nectar-rich flowers. These attract a variety of beneficial insects including parasitoid wasps, lacewings, ...

Beans are among the easiest crops to produce in the home garden, performing well in traditional garden beds, raised planting beds, and even containers. Pairing beans with companion plants enhances ...

“April is the cruellest month,” said Nobel Laureate poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in his 1922 masterpiece, The Waste Land. Many of us past a certain age had to decipher the long and complicated ...