Reptiles have been spotted on imported plants, but what we should really worry about, according to scientists, are the ...

From pruning and spraying to cutting back and attacking slugs, February is full of important chores for the attentive gardener.

Roses, long a gardener's favorite and our country's National Flower, still suffer from the reputation of being hard to grow. In reality, many modern roses like 'Knock Out' are robust, long-lived, ...

Honey bee and bumble bee nests are not usually a problem and should be preserved when possible. Social wasps are a group of related insects belonging primarily to the family Vespidae (sometimes called ...

Small, fertile, rugged and fueled by an expansive appetite, the species, he says, is “an exemplary invader, a perfect invader ...

It gives cities a better picture of the uphill task that they face,” said Jonathan Richardson, an urban ecologist at the University of Richmond who led the work published in ...

I GOT INTO the environmental restoration business by accident. After military tours at sea and in Iraq as a Marine grunt and sniper, I demobilized back to Salt Lake City, where my family had relocated ...

However, the mountain stone weta (Hemideina maori) has one of the most extreme adaptive processes ever seen. As the fascinating clip above explains, this insect can survive being frozen solid over ...

Ask the Gardener offers tips on lighting, the proper soil mix, and watering to ensure your plants get off to their early and best start.

If you could have a perfect weekend, how would you spend it? Where would you go? Whom would you be with? By Natalie Proulx We asked students, “What are you thinking and feeling as President ...