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 ...
LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Plastic has become ubiquitous in modern life and its accumulation as waste in the environment is sounding warning bells for the health of humans and wildlife. In a recent study, ...
It is remarkable how, after our prolonged heat, a few late rains and cooler temperatures have triggered roses to resume blooming. It is as if the roses, in defiance of a frost that is just a few weeks ...
The little bees are emerging from their cocoons right now! They are so small you might mistake them for a deer fly, except that unlike the fly, they don’t bite and unlike other bees you may know, they ...
A leaf-cutter bee carries a piece of a leaf it's cut to build a nest cell for its offspring. Utah State University scientist Joseph Wilson says the bees may be using plastic waste in place of natural ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
Scientists have noted instances of leaf-cutter bees using plastic waste to construct their nests and one research group suggested such behavior could be an 'ecologically adaptive trait' and beneficial ...