Farm strawberry-picking gives a friendly reminder that nature’s wild fruit will begin soon. Most raspberries, blackberries ...

The stroll was peaceful and the birds were singing.

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 ...

These sticky, prickly little nuisances are called burs (alternatively spelled as "burrs"), and they're actually seed pods, similar to seed and pollen cones.

Special events this weekend include the Colossal Coney Contest, entertainment at the Crane Trust, fun activities for all ages ...

Sure enough, in male cones, the concentration of 1,3-octadiene reached its peak each evening, prompting a mass exodus of weevils, Salzman and her colleagues reported in 2020 in Science Advances.

But from the success, and number of conifers everywhere, apparently air saturated with pollen has proved successful. Some of the purpose of this week’s column is to help you identify conifers by the ...

Yet this arrangement presents a problem for the cycad: How to get the thrips to visit and pollinate the egg-bearing cones, which offer no pollen food reward and require a journey to a separate plant.

They contain seeds. The male cones produce pollen. Other content from the research magazine Apollon: Polar clouds create wrinkle in the climate models “Two of the fossils are from a female cone and a ...

Lisa Wintrode, a member of The Garden Club of Danville, stands at a pollinator garden planted by Danville Master Gardeners at the Ruby B. Archie Public Library. The city of Danvil ...