In Nature, Diversity Isn’t a Slogan, It’s a Way of Life

A European honey bee (Apis mellifera) extracts nectar from an Aster flower.

Diversity is worth celebrating for many reasons. One of them is that nature is built on diversity.  In any ecosystem, diversity translates to resilience, and creates the conditions for biology to evolve and improve. If a forest is threatened by a certain kind of beetle, for example, genetic diversity is how the impacted tree species […]