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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 — ...

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