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🌿🦋 Test Your Nature Knowledge! 🦋🌿
Read story →: 🌿🦋 Test Your Nature Knowledge! 🦋🌿How much did you learn from this week’s Nature on the Brink posts? This week we explored Sideoats Grama, the Dotted Skipper, wildlife-friendly fall cleanup, and the importance of connected habitats. See…
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🌾🦋 Buzz & Bloom: Sideoats Grama + Dotted Skipper 🦋🌾
Read story →: 🌾🦋 Buzz & Bloom: Sideoats Grama + Dotted Skipper 🦋🌾This week’s Buzz & Bloom reminds us that a pollinator garden needs more than flowers. Native grasses can be an important part of butterfly habitat, too! 🌾 THE BLOOM: Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua…
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🍂 Habitat Connections: Leave the Leaves! 🍂
Read story →: 🍂 Habitat Connections: Leave the Leaves! 🍂As autumn arrives and leaves begin covering our yards, our first instinct may be to grab the rake. But those fallen leaves aren’t just yard waste—they’re habitat! A layer of leaves creates…
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🦋 Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight: Dotted Skipper 🦋
Read story →: 🦋 Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight: Dotted Skipper 🦋Small, quick, and closely tied to our native grasslands, meet the Dotted Skipper (Hesperia attalus)! This warm-toned skipper may be easy to overlook as it darts through sunny, open habitats, but it…
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🌾 Native Plant Highlight: Sideoats Grama 🌾
Read story →: 🌾 Native Plant Highlight: Sideoats Grama 🌾Native grasses may not always get the attention of colorful wildflowers, but they are an essential part of a healthy habitat. Meet Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)—a distinctive warm-season native grass with beauty,…
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🏡🌿 Neighbors for Nature: One Yard Can Start a Corridor
Read story →: 🏡🌿 Neighbors for Nature: One Yard Can Start a CorridorWhat happens when neighbors stop thinking of their yards as separate spaces and start seeing them as pieces of one larger habitat? In Princeton, New Jersey, a small group of neighbors is…
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🐾 Explore Outdoors Nature Challenge: Search for Animal Tracks! 🐾
Read story →: 🐾 Explore Outdoors Nature Challenge: Search for Animal Tracks! 🐾You don’t have to see an animal to know it was there! Wildlife leaves clues everywhere—and one of the most exciting clues to discover is a footprint. This week’s Explore Outdoors Nature…
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🌎🔎 TEST YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE! 🌿🦋🌾
Read story →: 🌎🔎 TEST YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE! 🌿🦋🌾How much did you learn from this week’s Nature on the Brink posts? Test your nature knowledge with these six questions about New Jersey tea, the Mottled Duskywing, and the important connection…
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🌸🦋 Buzz & Bloom: New Jersey Tea + Mottled Duskywing 🦋🌸
Read story →: 🌸🦋 Buzz & Bloom: New Jersey Tea + Mottled Duskywing 🦋🌸This week’s Buzz & Bloom is a perfect example of why choosing native plants can make such a difference for wildlife. 🌿 THE BLOOM: New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)Clusters of tiny white…