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

  26 September 2018

  

   

• See thousands of orchids in incredible detail in the Smithsonian’s newly digitized collection

  2 August 2018

  

   

• Sneak Peek: David H. Koch Hall of Fossils

  17 July 2018

  

   

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

  12 June 2018

  

   

• Smithsonian Digitization: Orchid Collection

  31 May 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