A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...
Thousands of native bee species buzz about our continent, tending to our gardens and ecosystems. Some are obvious, like chunky bumblebees. Others are harder to spot, like tiny fairy bees. “Native bees ...