A rare San Francisco leaf-cutter bee has been spotted in Marin County, California — the first sighting of the insect since 1980, the Sacramento Bee reported. A conservation group called Tamalpais Bee ...

Your fiddle-leaf fig (Ficus lyrata) is very impressive! These plants often succumb to overwatering. They also require quite a ...

Ishiguro found that the invertebrates displayed a remarkable sense of creativity as they harvested food, mated, and burrowed ...

A rare, elusive bee that is endemic to the Bay Area has turned up on Mount Tamalpais in its first documented sighting in nearly 45 years. The San Francisco leaf-cutter bee, also known as Trachusa ...

(KRON) — A rare bee species was seen in Marin County earlier this month for the first time in more than four decades. The San Francisco leaf-cutter bee (Trachusa gummifera) was spotted by a search ...

Question: Something is cutting semicircles in the edge of my rose leaves. What is it and do I need a control? Answer: Neatly cut and removed semicircles of leaf sections from rose and other foliage is ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I took some elephant ears and banana plants from Thibodaux and planted them at ...

Question: My azaleas suddenly started losing their leaves. I saw some small, green things that look like caterpillars on the branches, but after spraying them with Bacillus thuringiensis, they are ...

The orchards, gardens and natural areas of the Yakima Valley depend on pollinators to flourish. Managed hives of non-native honeybees pollinate the orchards. After blossom drop, these hives are moved ...

A rare, elusive bee that is endemic to the Bay Area has turned up on Mount Tamalpais in its first documented sighting in nearly 45 years. The San Francisco leaf-cutter bee, also known as Trachusa ...