Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

A common question is what do the bees do in this cold, icy weather? For the last several thousand years, bees have evolved to ...

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

When the first frost bites and the last of the summer blooms fade away, most gardens fall silent. But just because the temperature drops doesn’t mean your backyard has to turn into a ghost town.

HATTIESBURG — As the autumn bloom fades and his bees brace for the first cold snap, beekeeper Steven Coy is still reckoning with last winter’s losses, when 62% of his roughly 2,000 honeybee colonies ...