Create Your Own Pressed Botanical Specimen

August 16, 2023 Academy Editor Botany

An easy step-by-step guide on pressing and preserving your plants and flowers

Summer Garden Guide

June 1, 2023 Academy Editor Biodiversity, Botany, Environmental Science, Sustainability

Whether you live in the city, suburbs or out in the woods, you can help local biodiversity flourish with a few of these simple summer garden tips.

Mary Gibson Henry’s Extraordinary Botanical Collection Digitized

April 21, 2023 Academy Editor Botany

A volunteer BEES alum sheds some light on an innovative botanist and the importance of making her work available to everyone digitally.

Highlighting Biodiversity: Familiar Flora in Newfoundland and Labrador

March 13, 2023 Academy Editor Biodiversity, Botany, Photoblog

As the Academy celebrates biodiversity — the remarkable, beautiful tapestry of life on Earth — this year, we are delving into some of the fascinating locations our scientists have visited in the region and across the globe to study and help protect our planet’s phenomenally diverse and incredible species.

There Is a Fungus Among Us! Killer Fungi in the Flesh at the Academy

February 13, 2023 Academy Editor Botany, Entomology

Specimens of a certain parasitic fungi found in our collections with those otherworldly growth traits that have long been the inspiration for science fiction