by Administrator | Jun 25, 2021 | NEWS
National Pollinator Week: Help Our Pollinators June 21-27, 2021 is National Pollinator Week. Bees, bats, birds and butterflies do us an important service: As they visit flowers to feed on nectar, they carry pollen from plant to plant. This movement of pollen from a...
by Administrator | Jan 21, 2021 | NEWS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced Tuesday. An annual winter count by the...
by Administrator | Jun 10, 2020 | BUTTERFLY FACTS
Where have all the insects gone? Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for...
by Administrator | Feb 20, 2020 | BUTTERFLY FACTS
Without insects, we’d be doomed. It’s time to make a happier home for them. Unfortunately, we humans are now in a position to declare victory in our long war on insects. The United Nations’ Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has found 1...
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