BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — You’ve likely noticed butterflies drifting through flower beds or bees buzzing around gardens lately.

Pollinators are small creatures with a big impact. In fact, they are responsible for about one of every three bites of food ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Marcia Straub/Getty Images The weather is warm, and your yard should be buzzing with life, but instead it's quiet. You ...

Bee colonies are rapidly declining, which spells bad news for the environment. As of 2025, annual honey bee colony losses in the U.S. are projected to reach between 60% and 70%. Although not all ...

If you don't think you have space for a pollinator garden, think again. You may live on a cute, postage-stamp-sized lot or have a property drenched in cool shade, but there's always somewhere sunny to ...

Bee and butterfly populations are in decline in major regions of North America due to ongoing environmental change, and significant gaps in pollinator research limit our ability to protect these ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of nature's most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to ...

Now that the calendar is turning from May to June, proponents of the “no-mow May” movement can begin to mow their lawns once again. If you are not familiar with this movement, it suggests that ...

Butterflies are being hit hardest by urban growth. Shrinking habitats and food availability are causing their populations to decline. The same applies to many wild bees that fly early in spring.

Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans. For a few years we thought bats were to thank for the existence of butterflies. The idea was that the evolution of ...

Butterflies and bees continue activity as summer blooms across the Tri-Cities ...