Cucumbers are easy to grow, but their growth can benefit from the right companion plants. Consider growing this long-blooming ...

These are a creeping perennial with bright magenta cup-like flowers for hoverflies to creep inside of. Sweet alyssum ...

Since it began in 1970, Earth Day has grown into a strong, global movement, uniting over a billion people across nearly 190 ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

Other important cucumber pollinators include native bee species, syrphid flies (a.k.a. hover or flower flies), and soldier beetles (which are also good predators). Many of the same plants that attract ...

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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 ...

In the summer of 2023, a dozen people willingly walked into a steel chamber at the University of Ottawa designed to test the limits of human survival. Outfitted with heart rate monitors and ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Human rights silk Julian Burnside has never been afraid of letting his political allegiances shine. His loyalties may have ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist feeds thousands of these insects, a mere three ...

While some of United's European flights are aboard narrowbody Boeing 757-200s and 737 MAX 8s, most long-haul services—approximately 88%—are obviously on widebody equipment. It has 225 all-Boeing ...