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Inebriated animals and insects

Do the birds and the bees get a little drunk sometimes? They certainly seem to, at least some of them.

By Shauna Dobbie I bet you wish you could actually dissect all the Canada thistles out there and trash them.

If you want to have monarchs in your garden, plant nectar-rich flowers. Make sure your choices bloom in fall to

By Dorothy Dobbie They look blue. You’d swear they are blue, a very striking, and intense blue kind of blue.

By Shauna Dobbie My grandmother had a big bleeding heart in her garden, next to her front door. As a

1. Not from Turkey. There are three species of turkey, if you count the domesticated one, and all are from

1. Pigeons as navigators. Like humans, salmon and dolphins, pigeons carry magnetite in their brains and in their upper beaks

1. Small but mighty. If you dislike grey squirrels, then welcome a red squirrel to your yard. Although the much

1. Who spit on my perennials? See those little dabs of foam on the stems of your favourite perennials? It

1. Soap bubble throats. Hummingbirds have brilliant throats, but it is not pigment that is responsible for that luster. Instead,