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She browsed further up the aisle, and stopped to consider the plastic deer: cutouts, less than an inch thick but nearly life-size in height and length. The bucks held their antlered heads high. The ...

Once your seedlings are sufficiently tough, plant them in their forever home. Pick a spot with good drainage, decent sun, and, ideally, somewhere you’ll remember to water them. Dig a hole, plop them ...

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Entomologists are gluing tiny QR codes on honey bees to better track the pollinators’ travel habits and life cycles. In doing so, they hope to gain a more complete and accurate understanding of ...

Tasmania's largest apiary has begun artificially inseminating queen bees in a bid to safeguard against the arrival of varroa mite into the island state. A Tasmanian ban on the importation of ...

Now, as plastic straws make their return, the focus must shift from eliminating plastic altogether to making it more sustainable. In other words, focus more on the SMX definition of "material ...

He is a native English speaker. Biologists have tagged hundreds of bees with QR codes so they can track their movements, and in doing so they have finally begun to solve the mystery of how far ...

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