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 that, yet I bravely work there daily. I take comfort in the fact that I know I can outrun these toothy monsters, and also from the fact ...
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 am really excited about this week is that the monarch butterflies ...
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. The torch lily, or red hot poker (Kniphofia), is an herbaceous perennial that has narrow leaves and a yellow-orange, ...
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 detrimental effects it carries with it is why entomologists are encouraging people to know ...
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 goes along with encouragement to plant flowers that pollinators thrive on, or stop mowing flowers along road sides, or stop use of certain ...
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 flies, butterflies and other insects we may rarely notice. Insects ...