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It was World Bee Day last week, and that’s a great time to talk about bees. Honey bees specifically. Honey bees are an invasive species. These are sometimes referred to as the European honey bee, the western honey bee, but ESA states the common name is simply the “honey bee”. If you want to get scientific about it, it’s Apis mellifera*, which comes from the Latin of Apis meaning bee and mellifera meaning honey-bearing. There is still a little controversy, but most science poi

It’s a few weeks into May and that means the grass is getting longer and the weeds are coming in. Literally, in many cases, because May is “No Mow May”. This is apparently the month to not mow your lawn and let it just do its thing. You would think that whoever came up with this is brilliant to explain away their laziness in this way. It does have another purpose. The purpose was to help early-season pollinators. Not mowing allows the wildflowers (what many people will see as

Today is World Bee Day. Honey bees get all the love, but there are so many other bees that we cross paths with. There are around 3,500...

It was my mom’s birthday the other day and of course it was Mother’s Day here in the US this past weekend. It was great. It got me...

When I’m researching an article, I wind up having around three dozen tabs* open on my browser and I’m going back and forth between lots...

It’s halfway through May and that means the grass is getting longer and the weeds are coming in. Literally in many cases because May is...

The temperatures have been swinging from freezing to near 80’s, the dogwoods have blossomed, the pine trees are spewing pollen over...

It was the first really nice and warm weekend of the spring here in Georgia. The daffodils have been up for about two weeks, the dogwoods...