When searching for plants at the garden center, you may have encountered one of these unique cacti. Although they appear to be one singular plant, they're actually two separate plants grafted ...

ASU's location in a sunny, desert environment makes the campus the perfect place for cactuses. Gabriella Zwall, a senior studying dietetics and a member of the Cultivate Downtown Gardening Club at ASU ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt.

They're tick-sized critters native to Mesoamerica where they suck the juice from prickly pear cactuses. Nancy Greig: And if you squish them, they are bright red inside and kind of a purply ...

Residents across the sprawling metro are finding the extended extreme heat has led to fried flora and have shared photos and videos of their damaged cactuses with the Desert Botanical Garden.

This slice of pristine nature isn't just home to 250 or so succulents and cactuses, but also chuckwallas, roadrunners, and other desert creatures. And whether you opt to traipse around yourself ...

The curve-billed thrasher—the common thrasher of the rich, cactus-laden Sonoran Desert—can be very conspicuous, sitting up on saguaro or cholla cactuses, making its presence known by its loud ...

This occurrence, very much out of the ordinary for the family, will lead to an extreme and hostile situation and will reveal the suffocating, dark nature of the house among the cactuses and its ...