A desire to protect pollinators has earned Bronze Awards for three Girl Scouts. Sixth graders Niamh Burns and Brayah Kenville, and fifth grader Monroe Kroll, are members of Girl Scout Troop 4661, ...

These vibrant events serve not only as visual spectacles but also play a critical role in supporting local ecosystems. They attract essential pollinators like bees and butterflies, which contribute ...

Apples AI rollout now includes a rival to Google Lens, but is it any good? Let's give Visual Intelligence a try.

First, a row of deep purple butterfly bushes flanking the front entrance. Then, from the wraparound porch, a view of sunflowers in full bloom in a field across the street. And, the property’s ...

But most of our asters remain common and conspicuous, at least locally. One of the most striking is New England aster, with ...

Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

I will happily be voting to increase the tax levy for the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County to allow it to preserve ...

The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

Nature:Monarch butterflies bring beauty to Columbus metro ... The family of plants that asters belong to is generally called the sunflower family, but asters drive the family’s scientific ...

While I came home with some native false sunflowers and a couple of asters ... The leaves are a larval food source for several butterflies, and several bird species including finches and cardinals ...

Recognize this face? Back in June, two fawns managed to wedge themselves into a wooden picket fence on a neighbor’s property ...