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Habitat Connections
Read story →: Habitat Connections🌿 Habitat Update: Small Changes Create Big Results! 🐝🦋🐦 Creating healthy habitat doesn’t happen overnight—it grows, changes, and improves with every season. Our native plant habitat continues to develop into a more…
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Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight
Read story →: Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight🖤🐝 Pollinator Spotlight: Great Black Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) Big, black, and a little intimidating at first glance, the Great Black Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) is actually a fascinating native pollinator and beneficial garden…
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Native Plant Highlight
Read story →: Native Plant Highlight🌿 Native Plant Highlight: White-Tinged Sedge (Carex albicans) 🌿 Looking for a native plant that brings texture and year-round interest to a shady garden? White-tinged sedge (Carex albicans) is a graceful, clump-forming…
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🌿 Neighbors for Nature 🌿
Read story →: 🌿 Neighbors for Nature 🌿What if transforming just 50 square feet of your yard could help create a network of habitat for birds, butterflies, bees, and other wildlife? That’s the idea behind Nature Neighbors—a community movement…
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📸 Explore Outdoors Challenge: Take One Nature Photo Every Day for a Week 🌿
Read story →: 📸 Explore Outdoors Challenge: Take One Nature Photo Every Day for a Week 🌿Nature is full of incredible moments—you just have to pause long enough to notice them. This week’s challenge is simple:🌼 Take one nature photo every day for seven days. Your photo could…
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🌿🧠 Test Your Nature Knowledge! 🧠🌿
Read story →: 🌿🧠 Test Your Nature Knowledge! 🧠🌿Think you know your native plants and pollinators? Put your knowledge to the test! Drop your answers in the comments, and we’ll post the answers tomorrow. 1️⃣ Which native wildflower is often…
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🌼🐝 Buzz & Bloom: Hoverflies & Goldenrod 🐝🌼
Read story →: 🌼🐝 Buzz & Bloom: Hoverflies & Goldenrod 🐝🌼When you see tiny insects hovering effortlessly over late-summer flowers, don’t be so quick to call them bees. Chances are you’ve spotted a hoverfly—one of nature’s unsung pollinators! With their black-and-yellow stripes,…
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🌿 Why Habitats Matter 🌿
Read story →: 🌿 Why Habitats Matter 🌿Every bird, bee, butterfly, frog, and fox needs a place to call home. Habitats provide the food, water, shelter, and space wildlife needs to survive and thrive. When native habitats disappear, wildlife…
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Creature Feature Tuesday
Read story →: Creature Feature Tuesday🐝 Pollinator Spotlight: Common Eastern Bumble Bee 🐝 Don’t let its fuzzy appearance fool you—the Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) is one of North America’s hardest-working native pollinators. Unlike honey bees,…