Oh, the beauty of blooming! I actually worked on a commercial organic flower farm for two years, so I’ve known many kinds of ...

Although both plants provide food and shelter in a native urban habitat, in my yard, Maximillan Sunflower has more habitat value, hosting a wide variety of birds and insects eating seeds or ...

Anselm Kiefer, who turns 80 this weekend, travelled in Van Gogh’s footsteps when he was 18, hitchhiking his way through the Netherlands, Belgium and France. He has now returned to the Dutchman ...

"As a result, insects prefer wildflowers over crops in ... Research and their French colleagues are focusing mainly on sunflowers and broad beans. "In France, we are conducting extensive trials ...

What is the Goliath beetle and why is it so important? The Goliath beetles (genus Goliathus) are among the world’s biggest insects. There are five different species. They grow up to 110mm long ...

As spring thunder rolls, all life unfolds. Awakening of Insects, the third term of the 24 Solar Terms, is nature's wake-up call. In the words of Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Zhen, "Warmth awakens ...

Invasive Asian hornets are "highly flexible predators" that eat hundreds of different species of insects, including many important pollinators, researchers have warned. Researchers from the ...

All five gardens were planted in March of 2019 and contained 18 species of native perennials from the mint, sunflower and pea families. Over the course of the flowering season, the team surveyed ...

Vincent van Gogh painted his most famous sequence of Sunflowers while he lived in Arles, France, a prolific period in his artistic life. Van Gogh had a strong emotional connection to the sunflower ...