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How to Make Your Garden a Safe Haven for Bees—and Why Your Plants Will Thank You

These 5 tips will keep bees buzzing around your garden. Bees are tireless pollinators who play a vital role in our ecosystems. While they can be a scary nuisance at barbecues, they're absolutely ...
The Denver Post

Views on garden insects are changing. Why many former ‘pests’ are now valued

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JESSICA DAMIANO A neighbor texted me this week asking for advice about controlling carpenter bees. She was hoping for an exterminator recommendation, but ...
Columbus Dispatch

Here's how to attract bees, butterflies with a pollinator garden

Now that the calendar is turning from May to June, proponents of the “no-mow May” movement can begin to mow their lawns once again. If you are not familiar with this movement, it suggests that ...
Kansas City Star

What’s the difference between natives and nativars? Bees know, and now you can, too

The Johnson County Extension garden in Olathe is filled with native plants. Heather Cwach Special to The Star Gardeners can agree that we plant and tend perennial gardens to provide beauty and joy. A ...
The Florida Times-Union

Garden Q&A: Summer insects: What's munching on your plants?

What is making these circular holes in my redbud leaves? Should I spray them with something? The circular holes are made by leafcutter bees. There are more than 63 species of native leafcutter bees in ...
Yahoo

Want to encourage pollinators to visit your garden? How you can attract Michigan's bees

As warm weather finally begins to filter into Michigan, gardeners may be wondering how they can welcome back pollinators with a bee-friendly garden. Filling your garden with native plants that attract ...