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When it comes to pruning hydrangeas, be sure to know which variety you're growing
Home & Gardening

When it comes to pruning hydrangeas, be sure to know which variety you're growing

  • Rosanne Loparco USA Today Network
  • Updated Jun 5, 2026

Hydrangeas are prized for their beautiful flowers. To make sure you get those blooms, it's critical that you know when to prune them.

Stinknet: A smelly invasive plaguing Tucson
Environment

Stinknet: A smelly invasive plaguing Tucson

  • Rory Cunnington Arizona Sonoran News
  • Updated May 12, 2026

An invasive plant known as stinknet is rapidly spreading across Southern Arizona, raising concerns about wildfire risk and environmental damage. Experts warn the aggressive yellow weed can choke out native plants, fuel hotter fires and even pose health risks — urging residents to remove it now before it takes over.

Hands off: Catalina State Park swarm signals start of blister-beetle season
Environment

Hands off: Catalina State Park swarm signals start of blister-beetle season

  • Henry Brean
  • Updated Apr 22, 2026

It's blister-beetle season in Southern Arizona, and as the bug's name suggests, it's best to keep your distance.

Letter: Nature and n urture?
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Letter: Nature and n urture?

  • Howie Adams, Northeast side
  • Updated Jan 3, 2026

I read a story today of a newly discovered plant found in a forest outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia called a Fairy Lantern Flower and classified…

Tim Steller's column: 'Mass extinction' threat overstated, UA researchers say
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Tim Steller's column: 'Mass extinction' threat overstated, UA researchers say

  • Tim Steller
  • Updated Dec 17, 2025

For Star subscribers: As Earth's temperature rises sharply, the threat of a global mass extinction has loomed. But U of A researchers say that fear is flawed, although habitat conservation is necessary.

Local opinion: The profound pleasure of Identifying wildlife track and sign
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Local opinion: The profound pleasure of Identifying wildlife track and sign

  • Sharman Russell Special to the Arizona Daily Star
  • Aug 28, 2025

You don’t have to become an expert. With just a bit of work and guidance, you’ll see a print in the dirt and think feline or canine and then gray fox or coyote.

Reid Park Zoo's Toto, a survivor, shows perils of wildlife trafficking
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Reid Park Zoo's Toto, a survivor, shows perils of wildlife trafficking

  • Analeise Mayor
  • Updated Aug 20, 2025

Toto, a tiny squirrel monkey, has had to learn to be a regular monkey, after being rescued as a victim of wildlife trafficking.

Reid Park Zoo's Toto, a survivor, shows perils of wildlife trafficking
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Reid Park Zoo's Toto, a survivor, shows perils of wildlife trafficking

  • Analeise Mayor
  • Updated Aug 25, 2025

Toto, a tiny squirrel monkey residing at Reid Park Zoo, is slowly adjusting to life with his new troop.

Invasive carnivore plaguing Florida can completely absorb skeletons, study says
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Invasive carnivore plaguing Florida can completely absorb skeletons, study says

  • MARK PRICE, Miami Herald
  • Updated Jun 5, 2026

The invasive Burmese pythons plaguing Florida have an almost supernatural ability to absorb skeletons, and scientists say they have finally found out how it’s done.

Letter: AZGF allows big predator hunting with dogs
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Letter: AZGF allows big predator hunting with dogs

  • Candace Charvoz Frank, West side
  • Apr 21, 2025

Arizona Game and Fish (AZGF) commission is historically controlled by trophy hunting interests, a tiny minority of the public but one that is …

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