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• Crape myrtle trees aren’t native to the US, but hungry native birds still find them tasty

  26 September 2018

  

   

• Behind the scenes in the restaurant kitchen that feeds the National Zoo’s residents

  12 June 2018

  

   

• For millions of years these tiny beetles have chewed their way out of sight

  16 March 2018

  

   

• The Caribbean is stressed out

  27 December 2017

  

   

• In San Francisco, one wet winter can switch up Bay’s invasive species

  6 December 2017

  

   

• Ant colony ‘personality’ may play role in survival of its host plant

  5 December 2017

  

   

• Using digitized Botany specimens, AI excels in simple curatorial tasks

  1 December 2017

  

   

• The cranberry: America’s founding fruit

  16 November 2017

  

   

• Study: Large shady forest plots essential to survival of post-fledgling songbirds during drought

  2 November 2017

  

   

• Too many hungry deer are lowering diversity of native plants in eastern U.S. forests

  17 October 2017

  

   

• Study reveals soil fungi has final say in survival of seeds from tropical trees

  5 October 2017

  

   

• Mongooses wiped them out. Now Nicole Angeli wants the St. Croix ground lizard home again

  4 October 2017

  

   

• Remarkable new tree species was “hidden in plain sight” in the Andes

  13 September 2017

  

   

• Study shows parasites may be among earliest victims of climate change

  6 September 2017

  

   

• Study dates corn as staple crop in Central America beginning 4,300 years ago

  30 August 2017

  

   

• The beautiful and bizarre treehopper

  28 August 2017