SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — I designed my garden to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, specifically Monarchs. A family in Eastlake is doing the same. “I went out and bought Milkwee...
Take a look at the butterflies and bees in a garden, and the colorful flowers they feed on for nectar. They all serve a $24 billion purpose. Pollinator species are responsible for one out of ever...
https://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/2020/06/protecting-our-pollinators/
Diatomaceous earth is a naturally occurring, soft sedimentary rock that is crumbled into a fine white powder. Wondering how you can use DE in your garden? Well, as a natural method of pest con...
You walk onto your front porch. A praying mantis perches on a porch rail or table. It appears something like an odd-looking animated baby string bean, propped up with green toothpicks. As you mov...
DETROIT — Timothy Paule Jackson’s affinity for bees began in 2016. In the midst of a bad cold, he discovered “the power of raw honey” and became infatuated. Jackson, formerly a self-emplo...
These two men have increased the global honeybee population by 10 percent with their invention – a hive that lets humans harvest honey without harming bees. The “Flow Hive” is a man-made be...
https://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/2019/11/50000-beehives/
Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies leave their summer breeding grounds in the northeastern U.S. and Canada and travel some 3,000 miles south to Mexico to escape the cold of winter—a mig...
https://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/2019/11/monarch-butterfly/
Its sting hurts a lot, but if they were to disappear, it would hurt much more. The Earthwatch Institute concluded in the last debate of the Royal Geographical Society of London, that bees are the...