While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the sting is preferable. By Rachel Nuwer It’s a familiar, dreaded ...

If you’ve seen cartoon elephants before, you’ve likely noticed the stereotype that elephants fear mice. Given that they’re the largest land mammal on earth, it does seem unbelievable for elephants to ...

Source: Charles J. Sharp / Wikimedia Commons. Good fences make good neighbors—and good conservation tools, according to a new study. Analyzing nine years of data, researchers confirmed that beehive ...

When people live close to the forest, human-wildlife conflicts often arise. These conflicts can harm both people and nature, but there are ways to create harmony. One is by using bees, writes WWF's ...

Antoinette van de Water (Bring The Elephant Home, Project Dragonfly-Miami University alum) conducts research on sustainable solutions for human-elephant coexistence. In a study under the supervision ...

It has often been believed that elephants are afraid of mice, but according to our local elephant experts at Siam Road in Windham, there is no truth to this “urban myth.” The only annoyance to an ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. William Mwanduka (38) inspects bee hives housing colonies of African Honey Bees that have ...

PANA, Thailand (AP) — To stop wild elephants from rampaging through their produce, farmers in Thailand put up electric fences, set off firecrackers and even switched their crops from pineapples to ...

TAITA TAVETA, Kenya (AP) — For farmers in the Taita hills in southern Kenya, elephants are a menace: they raid crops and will occasionally injure or even kill people. Farmer Richard Shika, 68, has had ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. I took some elephant ears and banana plants from Thibodaux and planted them at ...

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