Kevin Burns receives funding from Victoria University of Wellington and the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Social colonies are nothing new in the animal kingdom. We know bees, ants and ...

Q. I have some wild ferns that have come up in one area that I want to move to another area. When is the best time to do this? These have been growing in this area for several years and are rather ...

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As summer rains start, you might want to consider adding some attractive moisture-loving plants to your garden. Ferns are always a good candidate where you have a little shade and sufficient water.

This spring, don’t forage for wild edible plants. Instead, welcome them into your garden. By Margaret Roach Jared Rosenbaum knows the primal thrill of foraging — a sense of interdependence with the ...

Mention the word fern, and many gardeners will envision an indoor grotto filled with Boston and maidenhair fern. Or maybe a tropical forest full of wild ferns. But in their garden? Maybe a Western ...

Jared Rosenbaum knows the primal thrill of foraging — a sense of interdependence with the natural world that he wants his son to experience, too. But as a field botanist, he also understands that ...

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This behavior, known as eusociality, has evolved independently in insects, crustaceans (certain species of shrimp) and even some mammals (naked mole rats), but it has never been observed in plants.