🦋🐝Water for Wildlife 💧🐦
We talk a lot about providing wildlife with native plants, food, and shelter—but every habitat needs one more essential ingredient: Water. 💧 Birds need water for drinking and bathing. Bees […]
Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight: Bee Fly
🐝🪰 POLLINATOR SPOTLIGHT: Meet the Bee Fly! Is it a bee? Is it a fly? If you spot a fuzzy little insect hovering over your flowers and extending a surprisingly
🌿🤍 NATIVE PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Virginia Waterleaf 🤍🌿
Walk through a rich Eastern woodland in spring and you may encounter a plant that is easy to overlook until you stop and look closely. Its broad green leaves appear
🌿 Young Nature Heroes: Leadership in Action 🌿
One young leader, one determined Scout troop, and one acre of habitat made for an inspiring conservation success story. Eagle Scout Grisha Driscoll organized and led a two-day habitat restoration
🌙 Explore Outdoors: Listen to the Sounds of Summer 🎶🦗
As the sun goes down, nature’s nighttime orchestra begins! Step outside, turn off the distractions, and spend a few minutes listening for crickets, katydids, and cicadas. 🦗 Crickets create their
🌿🐝 TEST YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE! 🌙🦋
We’ve explored some fascinating connections in nature recently—from nighttime wildlife and native vines to rattlesnake master and its pollinator visitors. How much do you remember? Test yourself with these 5
🌿🐝 TEST YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE! 🌙🦋
We’ve explored some fascinating connections in nature recently—from nighttime wildlife and native vines to rattlesnake master and its pollinator visitors. How much do you remember? Test yourself with these 5
Buzz & Bloom
🌿🐝 Rattlesnake Master & the Great Black Wasp 🖤🌿 At first glance, Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) may not look like a typical wildflower. Its stiff, blue-green leaves and round, pale
Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlife
🦋 POLLINATOR SPOTLIGHT: Clematis Clearwing Moth 🌿 At first glance, you might mistake the Clematis Clearwing Moth (Alcathoe caudata) for a wasp! Its slender body and mostly transparent wings are
Habitat Connections
🌙🦇 HABITAT UPDATE: When the Sun Goes Down, the Habitat Wakes Up When we think about wildlife habitat, we often picture what happens during the day—but after sunset, an entirely
🌿🤍 NATIVE PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Virgin’s Bower 🤍🌿
Looking for a native vine that brings late-summer beauty and wildlife value to the landscape? Meet Virgin’s Bower (Clematis virginiana), a vigorous native clematis covered with clusters of delicate white
Neighbors for Nature
🌍🌾 WILDLIFE SUCCESS STORY: The Wildebeest That Helped Restore the Serengeti Sometimes restoring a single species can help restore an entire ecosystem. The blue wildebeest is a keystone species of