One of my sustainability goals is to feed my chickens a significant portion of their daily rations from my garden. They have lots of time to free range and forage […]
Tag: insects
What’s Blooming at WVBG
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com This week, the West Virginia Botanic Garden is “on fire” with a full display of summer flowering plants and the insects that love them. WARNING: If […]
Slugs eating garden goods
If I told you you have hundreds of creatures in your garden, each of whom had 27,000 teeth, you might opt to stay indoors. I know my garden has just […]
What’s Blooming at WVBG
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com What’s blooming this week at the West Virginia Botanic Gardens? Daylilies galore, black-eyed Susans everywhere and now, Shasta daisies framing everything around them. But what I […]
What’s blooming at WVBG
by David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com In the unique bloom category, I start with a flower that looks like it should be from Africa, and it turns out that it really is. […]
Squashing spotted lanternfly populations a daunting yet vital task
MORGANTOWN—The spotted lanternfly is tough to miss, but easy to mistake for a colorful moth to those unaware of this invasive species’ short history in the United States. However, the […]
Bees are amazing creatures
Save the bees! Many of us have said this phrase with conviction. Many of us applaud or nod in support when we hear or read it. The popular phrase often […]
Pollinator Hotel
By Aldona BirdNewsroom@DominionPost.com While many of us consider honeybees and pollinators to be synonymous, there are many other insects who pollinate plants. Most bees and wasps pollinate as do some […]
What’s Blooming at WVBG
By David P. Davis Newsroom@DominionPost.com This week at the West Virginia Botanic Garden, we take a diversion to discuss the intricacies of plant-insect interactions. Plants are critical to many insect species […]
Important Invertebrates
WVU Today Millipedes represent some of the earliest known terrestrial animals and are understudied, but two researchers at West Virginia University are working to shine a light on these important […]
