The citrus and jasmine scent of Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) perfuming our gardens on warm afternoons in summer is enchanting. Many of us have sipped the sweet nectar from the base of the ...

Looking to get more hummingbirds to nest in your yard — or at least just visit? The fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers of honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) are a great attraction. Experienced gardeners may be ...

Nowadays when someone mentions honeysuckle, they’re usually complaining about that sweetly fragrant, infuriatingly invasive thug from Asia, Lonicera japonica, aka ‘Japanese Honeysuckle’, that’s taking ...

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The Honshu white admiral butterfly, bred at the Lincoln campus. Around a thousand larvae or caterpillars of the butterfly will be released to control Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica). In the ...