Beneficial Insects44 Stories
Gardening GuidesPut Out the Welcome Mat for Leafcutter Bees in Your Garden
Provide a diversity of flowering plants from spring through fall for these charismatic native bees, and you won’t be disappointed
Full StoryGardening Guides15 Native Flowers That Feed Native Bees
These perennials offer superfood to hundreds of bees and are gorgeous in their own right
Full StoryGardening GuidesSmall Carpenter Bees Are Looking for a Home in Your Plant Stems
Provide flowers and nesting sites in your garden for this beautiful, tiny, metallic blue wild bee — your plants will thank you
Full StoryGardening GuidesLook Out for Lacewings: Beneficial Insects Coming to a Garden Near You
Lacewings are delicate insects that produce alligator-like, hungry offspring that devour aphids and other garden pests
Full StoryGardening GuidesThis Fly Is One of the Most Beneficial Insects Around
Meet the syrphid fly, a colorful pollinator that also beats chemicals for controlling aphids and other garden pests
Full StoryGardening and LandscapingBe a Citizen Scientist to Help Wildlife, Learn and Have Fun Too
Track butterflies, study birds, capture stars ... when you aid monitoring efforts, you’re lending Mother Nature a hand
Full StoryEarth DayHow to Help Your Town’s Beneficial Birds and Bugs
Make a habitat using local materials to provide a home to the creatures that help our gardens
Full StoryFarm Your YardHello, Honey: Beekeeping Anywhere for Fun, Food and Good Deeds
We need pollinators, and they increasingly need us too. Here, why and how to be a bee friend
Full StoryGardening for ButterfliesGardening for the Bees, and Why It’s a Good Thing
When you discover how hard bees work for our food supply, you may never garden without them in mind again
Full StoryGardening for ButterfliesButterfly Gardening: Delight the Eyes With Living Sculptures
Surprise and thrill with a garden that attracts magical winged creatures, bringing color, movement and life
Full StoryGardening and LandscapingBid Bad Garden Bugs Goodbye and Usher In the Good
Give ants their marching orders and send mosquitoes moseying, while creating a garden that draws pollinators and helpful eaters
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