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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Insects, plants communicate, too
There are many ways a person can communicate with other people: talking, signing in a sign language, texting, calling, through reading, or through writing. We know that […]
Return of the Zombie Cicadas
WVU team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers WVU Today Mind games aren’t exclusive to humans. Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery […]