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Brown Tail Moth Outbreak Makes Life Itchy for Maine Farmers
As daylight hours lengthen and temperatures begin to warm, you might notice something fluttering in the tops of the still-bare trees around Maine. It’s the silvery, silky nests of the brown tail moth...
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For These Teens, a Unique Beekeeping Program Teaches About Much More Than Honey
Spending 15 weeks surrounded by bees wasn’t Maria Roman’s plan for the summer. The New Haven, Connecticut-based teenager was going through a lot when a family friend suggested she participate in the...
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Meet the Milkweed Man on a Quest to Help Monarch Butterflies
Before dawn on an October morning, a thick fog wends its way down the many trails of Maine’s Peaks Island, coating the trees and fields in a gray blanket. A man makes his way along the trails, peering...
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Swift Intervention By Western States Is Keeping a Devastating Beetle at Bay
With copper-colored wings and an emerald head, the Japanese beetle is pretty, but devastating. Not native to the United States, the Japanese beetle was first detected on the East Coast in the early...
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Hungry and Seemingly Unstoppable: Grasshoppers Invade Canada’s Prairies
Every August, the Alberta government surveys grasshopper populations to discern the number of adult females capable of reproduction and egg-laying. Based on these tallies, the following year’s...
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Are We Backing the Wrong Bee?
Dr. Jim Cane is out in the squash fields before the sun peeks out over the eastern horizon. He knows that if he starts early, he can find male squash bees sleeping within the collapsed husks of...
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In Defense of Wasps
When I am talking to folks about wasps, I usually have to stop a couple of times and explain that when I say I love wasps, I truly do mean wasps. Yes, the stinging ones. Yes, the ones that stung...
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Meet the Urban Apiarist Creating Community for Black Beekeepers
With a background in food policy and environmental causes, Karyn Bigelow already understood how vital bees are to the environment. But the isolation during 2020 sent her on a path to help diversify the...
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Pollinator Habitat is Falling to the Side of the Road—in a Good Way
If you’re driving along the highway in Florida sometime soon, you may find the roadside dotted with the blooms of thousands of flowers. But they aren’t just eye candy. These flowers are intended to...
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Meet the Woman Who Launched a Local Training Program to Save Native Bees
In Boulder, Colorado, the grasses and prairie flowers of the Great Plains wave as they stretch up, eventually giving way to the Ponderosa pines that dot the Rocky Mountains. This ecosystem overlap is...
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