pollinators

Every time you spray a glyphosate-based weed killer near flowering plants, the unlisted ingredien...

That pretty pink-flowered plant spreading along your local riverbank or woodland edge could be qu...

The wildflowers you're encouraging along your fence line or garden edge may already be carrying p...

If you watch for the first spring wildflowers pushing up through forest leaf litter each year, yo...

Common milkweed blooming in your yard right now is monarch butterfly habitat, and every patch you...

Every time you spray a pyrethroid insecticide (many common garden bug-killers) near blooming plan...

Every squash, cucumber, and berry in your garden depends on honeybees making it through the seaso...

The bees buzzing around your garden beds this spring could still show up right on schedule with y...

Your cucumber vines buzzing with bees during a dry summer aren't thriving — they're stressed, pum...

Every bee that disappears from a sprayed orchard is one fewer visitor to the wildflowers and vege...

Every summer vegetable and fruit in your garden depends on pollinators finding flowers, and heat ...

Adding a patch of shade plants or a sun-trap shrub to your garden may do more for bees and butter...

Milkweed growing along your fence line or in a sunny corner of your yard is the only plant monarc...

Butterfly milkweed blooming in your yard or on a roadside verge is one of the clearest signs that...

Pink lady's slippers growing in your local woods take 10–15 years to flower for the first time an...

The staggered bloom schedule that feeds Arctic insects, nesting shorebirds, and grazing caribou a...

If you grow fruit trees or keep a pollinator garden, the mason bees you're counting on to set you...

Common milkweed blooming in your yard or along a nearby roadside right now is the single most imp...

If you plant a mixed vegetable bed instead of a single crop, you're likely stacking the odds towa...

Butterfly milkweed blooming in your yard right now is one of the few native flowers that can sing...

If you walk any eastern woodland trail this month, you have a real chance of spotting one of Nort...

The wild bees visiting your garden flowers are also delivering yeasts and bacteria that alter the...

Without bees, beetles, and flies visiting your vegetable beds and fruit trees, harvests shrink—an...

Every tomato, blueberry, or eggplant you grow that needs 'shaking' to release pollen depends on b...

Every bee, ground beetle, and butterfly that visits your garden is potentially exposed to imidacl...

Milkweed patches in your yard or neighborhood are the single non-negotiable requirement for monar...

Planting the right leafy shrubs and perennials in your yard could directly support leafcutter bee...

The bees visiting your tomato flowers or apple blossoms can survive a pesticide exposure and stil...

Milkweed in your yard or neighborhood right now is the only plant monarch butterfly caterpillars ...

Every third bite of food in your garden — squash, cucumbers, berries, apples — depends on bees th...

The milkweed you plant for monarchs depends on pollinators to set seed, and trapped dead honey be...

Pink lady's slippers growing in your local woods take 10–15 years to first bloom and can't surviv...

Wild strawberry patches threading through your lawn or meadow edge aren't weeds — they're a groun...

Every milkweed plant spotted and logged right now is a data point helping track whether monarch b...

Letting honeybees work your pear tree rather than hand-pollinating isn't just easier — the bees t...

Every tomato, apple, and squash in your garden depends on bees that are quietly absorbing pestici...

The bumble bees visiting your garden flowers may be one season away from colony collapse if they'...

The katsura tree lining your local botanical garden or arboretum blooms in a narrow window each s...

Pink lady's slippers blooming near your local trails take 10–17 years to flower from seed and wil...

That hollow spot on your squash vine where a fruit aborted and shriveled? Across 86 crops and 70 ...

Every bee photo you snap and upload to a nature app could soon be automatically identified by AI,...

Weevils — those small, snout-nosed beetles most gardeners curse — turn out to be secret pollinati...

Every wildflower you leave standing at the edge of your garden is a vote for the gut health of na...

Wild geranium blooming along your woodland trail edge right now is a reliable nectar stop for que...

If you walk any eastern hardwood forest this week, you're in the middle of peak trillium season —...

Next spring when saucer magnolias explode into bloom, those outsized flowers are running a sophis...

If you grow mustard greens, arugula, or any brassica that you let go to seed, the small native be...

Solomon's plume arching through a shaded woodland edge tells you the understory is intact — and p...

Those tall, fragrant purple-and-white flower clusters lining roadsides and woodland edges right n...

Every strawberry, tomato, and squash in your garden depends on bumble bees that may be quietly lo...

Every third bite of food on your plate depends on pollinators, and this study shows the bees visi...

Tufted vetch scrambling through your meadow or roadside verge is quietly pulling nitrogen from th...

Next time you spot a bumblebee hovering at the base of a tubular flower instead of its mouth, you...

If you grow a common fig at home or spot one fruiting in a garden, you're watching a chemical con...

The bees and birds that visit your garden aren't interchangeable; lose even one specialist specie...

Yarrow blooming in roadside ditches and meadows right now is one of the best indicators that your...

Black-eyed Susans blooming in your yard or along roadsides right now are feeding native bees and ...

Canada anemone spreading through a rain garden or wet meadow edge is doing double duty — its dens...

Next time you spot a hummingbird hovering at a tubular red flower in a mountain garden, you're wa...

Even a small patch of marsh grass you help restore can pull in pollinators that turbocharge the w...

Every flower in your garden that sets fruit or seed depends on pollinators whose populations are ...

Fruit-bearing trees in grasslands and savannahs worldwide may quietly stop reproducing long befor...

Every squash, tomato, or berry in your garden depends on bees you've probably never noticed—sting...

The bumblebees visiting your garden aren't interchangeable — some handle heat waves better, some ...

Every spring when birch or oak pollen coats your car and sends allergy sufferers indoors, no one ...

Yarrow blooming in your yard or along your fence line is a free pollinator buffet — its flat-topp...

Those showy purple clusters lining roadsides and garden edges in June are dame's rocket, not nati...

Solomon's plume is one of the easiest native woodland plants to establish in a shady corner, and ...

The mix of flowers you plant determines which bees can actually get the protein and fat they need...

If you've ever planted a tree hoping for fruit, this shows how a well-meaning backyard beehive ca...

Wild bergamot blooming in your neighborhood right now is one of the best plants you can add to a ...

Black-eyed Susan blooming at this scale signals that your local meadow or sunny border is enterin...

Common yarrow growing along your fence line or in a neglected corner of your yard is actively bei...

Orchid bees are the sole pollinators of many tropical orchid species, so the forest patches and b...

Abandoned quarries near your region could be quietly becoming some of the best wildlife habitat a...

Common selfheal is almost certainly already growing in your lawn or a nearby path edge — it's one...

Tufted vetch scrambling through your hedgerows or meadow edges is actively fixing nitrogen into t...

Canada anemone spreading a white-flowered carpet along stream banks and wet meadow edges right no...

Yarrow blooming in your yard or along roadsides right now is a reliable nectar source for native ...

Black-eyed Susans blooming in your yard or along roadsides right now are prime nectar stops for n...

Every squash, blueberry, and apple in your garden depends on wild bees that honeybee hives — if p...

Every third bite of food in your garden — squash, tomatoes, berries — depends on bees whose colon...

Wild geranium blooming in your local woodland right now is a reliable phenology signal that sprin...

If you grow fruit trees, the small blue-black bees nesting in hollow stems near your yard each sp...

Next time you spot a wildflower changing color as you hike uphill, you're watching millions of ye...

Lead and cadmium from contaminated soil can move through pollen and nectar into the bees visiting...

If you grow crape myrtles and wonder why big bumblebee-sized carpenter bees seem to 'fit' the flo...

Yarrow spreading along roadsides and meadow edges near you is one of the easiest native plants to...

Foxglove beardtongue blooming in your yard or along a roadside right now is prime habitat for nat...

Canada anemone spreading through a moist garden corner or streambank edge is doing real ecologica...

The honey in your pantry and the bees pollinating your garden are exposed to pesticide residues t...

Orchids growing shoulder-to-shoulder in a meadow can stay distinct species for millions of years ...

The tomatoes and squash in your garden may still set fruit fine even as native bee sightings dwin...

Every bee that visits a corn tassel in a treated field is picking up whatever chemicals traveled ...

Every tomato, squash, and berry in your garden depends on bumblebees completing their life cycle,...

The wild bergamot blooming in your pollinator garden isn't just pretty - when it peaks relative t...

Every third bite of food you eat depends on a pollinator, and the bumblebees doing much of that w...

If you grow banksias or walk through Australian bushland at night, the flowers you assumed were p...

If you've watched hummingbirds work a garden and wondered which wild plants depend on them most d...

If you plant a pollinator garden or grow fruit that depends on bees, this study shows the insecti...

Yarrow blooming in your yard or along roadsides right now is one of the most reliable signals tha...

Every third bite of food you eat exists because a bee visited a flower — and the models here show...

Wildflower-rich rewilded land hosts 56% more rare invertebrate species and a third more pollinato...

Selfheal is almost certainly already growing in your lawn or garden path and most people pull it ...

Yarrow blooming in your yard or along roadsides right now is a reliable signal that summer pollin...

Black-eyed Susans blooming in your yard or along a roadside right now are feeding the specialist ...

New Jersey tea fixes its own nitrogen through root nodules, meaning it feeds the soil around it w...

The moths and other night visitors working your garden after dark aren't a separate cast of chara...

Which cowslip flower type you collect seed from affects how well those seeds sprout, and because ...

The stingless bees pollinating tomatoes, peppers, and native flowering plants in tropical and sub...

If you've ever wondered why some flowers smell strongest at certain times of day, this passionflo...

That uncommon wildflower you spot on a mountain hike may only persist because it evolved flowers ...

If you grow Ixora shrubs for butterflies, this shows that swapping to the species with tubular fl...

Watch the wildflowers in a dry August meadow and you're watching evolution in real time: the same...

The scattered layout of flowers in your garden, not just the flower type, influences which bees a...

Oxeye daisy carpeting roadsides and meadows right now is quietly outcompeting native wildflowers ...

Red campion's hot-pink flowers blooming along roadsides and hedgerows near your home are quietly ...

Clasping milkweed is one of the rarer native milkweeds — spotting it in an Atlanta neighborhood m...

The wildflower meadows and pastures that once bordered mountain villages across Central Europe ar...

Next time you walk past a strangler fig or spot a weeping fig in a botanic garden, know that its ...

Wild flax flowers blooming in dry Mediterranean scrub have quietly evolved two different strategi...

Wild senna plants blooming along roadsides and meadow edges are running a daily floral shell game...

Those lumpy growths you notice on shrubs along roadsides and trails are actually the result of an...

Canola fields turning bright yellow in midsummer are one of the most dramatic agricultural specta...

Watch a patch of partridge peas closely enough and you'll catch individual plants flipping which ...

Mexican Giant Hyssop's confirmed presence in suburban DFW means you can likely grow this drought-...

Dakota mock vervain's clusters of bright purple blooms are one of the best low-water natives you ...

American basketflower draws native bees and butterflies to North Texas roadsides and meadows — sp...

Red columbine's spurred flowers are perfectly shaped for ruby-throated hummingbirds, so spotting ...

When bees and other pollinators disappear from your neighborhood, the wildflowers left behind don...

The hedgerow or wildflower strip bordering a farm field you pass on a walk may be doing more for ...

The soil under your vegetable beds or lawn hosts a bacterial community that keeps nutrients cycli...

If you've got bees, hummingbirds, or swallowtails visiting your yard this week, wild bergamot's l...

Every flower in your garden is running a hidden competition: which pollen grain wins the race to ...

If you grow plums, cherries, or apricots, the same white flowers that signal spring to you are al...

Milkweed is the only plant monarch caterpillars can eat, so knowing where it grows naturally poin...

The dense purple flower clusters of tufted vetch attract bumblebees specifically, and spotting it...

Native shrubs in pollinator-friendly gardens can maintain healthy reproduction even as bee commun...

If you grow fruit trees, squash, or any crop that needs pollination, the financial health of comm...

Carpenter bees tunneling through the dead wood in your garden fence or log pile may carry gut bac...

Every bee that visits your garden flowers is also shuttling invisible microbial passengers that c...

Wild bergamot growing in Tennessee roadsides and meadows is a magnet for native bees, hummingbird...

The next time you spot chewed leaves on a tree in the park, the plant may already be broadcasting...

The netted apple, cherry, or nut orchard you pass on a drive through farm country is quietly cutt...

The clover and legumes in your yard rely on underground bacterial partners whose quality, not jus...

Every time a gardener notices that bees have stopped visiting a plant that once buzzed with them,...

If you've ever spotted neat, circular holes punched into your rose or redbud leaves, that's a lea...

Dakota mock vervain blooming in a Fort Worth yard or vacant lot is a signal that your local polli...

If you've got a patch of purple, shaggy-flowered blooms buzzing with bees and hummingbird moths a...

If you've hiked a burned-over hillside or a recent clear-cut this summer, that tall spike of pink...

Wild bergamot is one of the best native plants you can add to a sunny garden border — it blooms m...

That rhododendron blooming in your yard each spring produces nectar loaded with a compound potent...

The tomato plant that suddenly smells sharper after aphids arrive, or the oak leaves that toughen...

If you grow tomatoes in soil with any salt buildup, from coastal gardens to over-fertilized beds,...

Native Chilean trees like the ulmo and quillay — whose pollen this dataset captures in unpreceden...

The burrowing animals that once turned over soil across Australia did for insects what a garden f...

If you've got a patch of dry, sunny ground you don't know what to do with, wild bergamot fills it...

Every third bite of food you eat exists because a bee visited a flower first, and the parasites q...

The milkweed patch you've been letting grow wild in the back corner of your yard is exactly what ...

If you've ever wondered why some flowers in your garden seem fragrant one moment and scentless th...

If you grow tomatoes, eggplant, or melons under any kind of cover, a single insect that both sets...

The flowers in your garden that get nibbled by beetles or caterpillars are likely still calling i...

Eastern redbud is one of the earliest native trees to bloom each spring, offering a burst of mage...

White oaks in your region support over 500 species of caterpillars and moths, making a single mat...

Red columbine's distinctive red-and-yellow nodding flowers are one of the earliest spring nectar ...

Common milkweed growing in Chatmoss means monarch butterflies have a potential breeding and necta...

Mapleleaf viburnum is one of the few native shrubs that thrives in deep shade under mature trees,...

Scarlet Beebalm is one of the few native perennials that draws hummingbirds, bumblebees, and swal...

If you've got a patch of common milkweed in your yard or spot its pink flower clusters on a walk,...

If you grow tomatoes, peppers, or blueberries, the bees doing the real work are the ones that sha...

The rice on your plate might one day need fewer pesticides thanks to a single gene that lets the ...

The wildflower patches and diverse plantings in your yard aren't just feeding bees directly, they...

The bees pollinating your garden's tomatoes and squash rely on smell to find the right flowers, a...

If you spot clusters of small white daisy-like flowers along woodland edges or damp meadows this ...

The bees and butterflies visiting your garden rely on scent to find flowers, and this review show...

If you've got milkweed in your yard or spot it on a walk, you're looking at the only plant monarc...

If you grow apples or plant flowers to support pollinators, the fungicides and soil particles tho...

If you rely on native bees to pollinate garden crops or wild plants nearby, this study is a remin...

If you've ever assumed the showiest flower in your garden must be the most successful at reproduc...

Fruit-bearing trees in dry forests depend on butterflies to signal ecosystem health — when canopy...

If you keep bees or garden for pollinators, these stingless species quietly pollinate crops and w...

Foxglove beardtongue is one of the easiest native perennials to establish in a sunny border, and ...

The person who notices exactly when a squash blossom opens or when bees are working a hedgerow is...

Sacred Datura's large, white trumpet flowers open at dusk and are pollinated almost exclusively b...

The aphids or caterpillars nibbling your tomatoes and roses aren't just eating; their spit is act...

If you release beneficial insects in a vegetable patch or orchard, this shows the plant's own sha...

Black-eyed Susans blooming along roadsides in the DFW area are a cue that your summer pollinator ...

The oak in your yard and its resident caterpillars might not be as finely matched as nature docum...

The smell of crushed tomato leaves, the sharp scent of pine sap on your hands, and the bitter def...

Violet woodsorrel thriving in Kentucky meadows and open woodlands signals healthy native ground c...

Sweet scabious blooming along a North Texas nature trail signals this drought-tolerant Mediterran...

If you've got a damp, part-shady spot near a stream, pond edge, or rain garden, this tall red wil...

If you've got a damp spot along a stream, pond edge, or low garden corner, this native perennial ...

The passionflower vines climbing a trellis in your garden are locked in a chemical arms race with...

The bees and other pollinators visiting your garden depend on flowers opening their pollen sacs a...

If you've ever wondered how a fig tree calls in the one specific wasp species it needs to make fr...

That low, purple-flowered plant sneaking into your lawn between mowings isn't a weed to spray, it...

Those umbrella-shaped white flower clusters popping up in vacant lots and roadside ditches this w...

The tall, pink-flowered weed you might have yanked from a garden bed is the only plant monarch ca...

If you've ever wondered whether a replanted woodlot or reclaimed lot can really support birds and...

The bees working your garden flowers could be carrying pesticide residues you'd never see, and th...

The tall pink spikes popping up along trails, roadsides, and recently burned or disturbed ground ...

The bumblebees buzzing your garden squash and the moths visiting your evening primrose evolved th...

If you've ever wondered why a butterfly ignores the lush, perfect host plant in your garden and l...

The neonicotinoid residue that lingers in soil long after it's sprayed is one reason bees and oth...

If you've ever tried to pull a stubborn weed only to have it return weeks later, this plant's str...

If you've got a damp spot in your yard where nothing else thrives, this native perennial blooms e...

If you spot papery white flower clusters with yellow centers along a dry trail or roadside this w...

The ants and beetles crawling through your garden mulch might be carrying seeds in their gut to a...

The tomatoes and herbs you grow at home could one day be protected by pest sprays made from plant...

The bumblebee bumbling through your tomato blossoms belongs to a species whose Asian relatives ca...

The hedgerows, flowering borders, and mixed plantings you see edging farm fields aren't just pret...

The tomatoes struggling in your backyard during a heat wave or the aphid explosion on your roses ...

The leaf-cutter bees nesting in your garden's bee hotel today carry pollen the same dry, compacte...

The layering of trees, shrubs, and flowering plants in a garden determines whether you'll spot in...

If you've got a damp corner of the yard or live near a wetland, this is your cue that spotted Joe...

The idea that butterflies and the plants they eat shaped each other over millions of years, an id...

If you've noticed bright yellow daisy-like flowers popping up along trails and roadsides lately, ...

That fern-like plant with flat white flower clusters growing in your lawn edges or roadside ditch...

If you spot a tall spike of magenta flowers blooming from the bottom up along a trail, roadside, ...

The wildflowers and weeds you let grow at the edge of your yard could be exactly what's feeding l...

The dusty coating on pollen you see on bees and windowsills isn't just mess, it's a carefully eng...

If you've noticed some blooms in your garden fade fast while others linger for days, pollinator v...

If you've ever wondered why some wildflower patches produce fewer seeds or less genetic variety t...

Bird's-foot trefoil spreads quietly through lawns and golf courses, fixing nitrogen in the soil a...

Every tomato, apple, and wildflower in your garden depends on pollen carrying just the right surf...

The proteins plants pump into their flowers may be doing jobs we haven't imagined yet — and under...

American trumpet vine's hummingbird-red blooms are a magnet for ruby-throated hummingbirds in lat...

Buttonbush is one of the best native shrubs you can plant near a wet spot or rain garden — its gl...

Blue vervain growing near residential streets signals healthy pollinator corridors in your commun...

Spreading dogbane is one of the few native plants that monarch butterflies and hummingbird moths ...

Fireweed is one of the first plants to colonize disturbed ground — if you're restoring a bare pat...

Twinberry honeysuckle's paired black berries on bright red bracts are one of the most distinctive...

Lilac chaste tree thrives in hot, dry conditions and produces long lavender flower spikes that dr...

Upright prairie coneflower thrives in the dry, rocky soils most gardeners curse — spotting it nat...

Bird's-foot trefoil creeping into Wauwatosa lawns and roadsides can outcompete native clovers and...

Common selfheal growing in a lawn or sidewalk strip is one of the easiest medicinal wildflowers t...

Bees, beetles, and other insects pollinating your garden or producing your honey may carry hidden...

Foxglove beardtongue is one of the most reliable native perennials for attracting long-tongued be...

Common columbine's distinctive spurred flowers are among the first to feed emerging hummingbirds ...

Carolina rose is a tough, drought-tolerant native shrub that supports pollinators and wildlife — ...

Prairie woundwort is a native perennial that attracts bumblebees and supports wild pollinator pop...

Common evening-primrose growing along roadsides and disturbed ground near you is a powerful polli...

The pollinator forecasts conservation groups use to plan habitat restoration could be quietly wro...

Every sneeze-inducing pollen cloud drifting through your yard in spring depends on grain weight a...

Monarch butterflies depend entirely on milkweed to lay their eggs, so every verified sighting lik...

If you're restoring a native garden or hiking Southern California's coast, this tough, drought-pr...

If you walk or garden near Pacific Northwest waterways, this is the purple-flowered native that s...

That lacy white flower cluster along your roadside or trail edge, often mistaken for its poisonou...

The oriental fruit fly is a major pest of orchard and garden fruit worldwide, so anything that re...

Turkey mullein is a magnet for native bees and was historically used by Indigenous communities to...

American trumpet vine's bright orange blooms are a magnet for ruby-throated hummingbirds, so spot...

White clover growing in your lawn is quietly fixing nitrogen from the air into the soil — a free ...

If you've got a bare fence or trellis and want to pull in hummingbirds all summer, this vine's or...

This scrubby shrub feeds more native bee and butterfly species than almost any other plant in Sou...

If you garden in the Southwest, this trumpet-flowered native blooms at night and draws hawkmoths,...

If you're planting a pollinator patch, cup plant's water-catching leaf cups double as tiny bird b...

If you're hiking or gardening in BC's interior, this is a native late-summer bloomer that pollina...

That wispy, silver-plumed vine climbing over fences and shrubs near Austin trails is a native Tex...

Nodding onion is a native pollinator magnet with edible bulbs, so spotting one growing wild is a ...

That feathery-leafed plant popping up in sidewalk cracks and parking strips isn't just weedy fill...

Spotting Lance-leaved Coreopsis thriving on a city street shows how well this drought-tolerant na...

If you're trying to fill a sunny, dry patch of garden with something pollinators love and deer te...

That roadside stretch of Elverta might look like scrubby edge-land, but a confirmed sunflower sig...

If you hike or garden in interior British Columbia, this shrub's shiny black twin berries and red...

If you're restoring a soggy corner of your yard or a streambank near you, Rose Spirea is the kind...

Pacific ninebark is a workhorse native shrub for Pacific Northwest gardeners: its spring clusters...

If you hike or garden in California's inner coast ranges, Vinegar Weed's sharp, vinegary scent an...

Lemon beebalm's minty-citrus scent and long summer bloom make it a bee and butterfly magnet you c...

If you're planning a drought-tolerant native bed, this coneflower's confirmed presence in Central...

The fruit flies buzzing around your compost bin or overripe tomatoes use this exact molecular swi...