Take a stroll through a garden or restored patch of native plants, and you might catch a creature zipping skillfully among the blooms much like a tiny-but-fierce hummingbird on the hunt for nectar.

An odd creature was caught on camera in two different areas of Alberta recently. In a video taken by Stuart Mair while in Waterton, it appears to have striped wings and drink nectar from a flower ...

Juvenile hummingbirds began leaving their nests about two weeks ago, so activity at my nectar feeders has surged. Where a month ago, I had four or five hummers coming to my feeders, that number has ...

Dear Master Gardener: I saw an insect that looks and flies like a hummingbird. What is it and can it damage my flowers? Answer: The insect you most likely saw, and that frequently gets mistaken for a ...

Here’s thanks from another nature lover for your apology (apo: to raise to; logy: the level of reason, or at least of the word) for the behavior of the squirrel in eating a presumably crippled or dead ...

Standing in the cool of my garden as the shadows lengthened toward night, an unexpected guest visited my home. With a fat, striped body, it moved quickly between white blossoms. At first I stepped ...

With the heat come moths, denizens of the warm desert nights. They wander through our yards seeking particular flowers that suit their unfashionably late feeding times. Because so many flowers close ...