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🌸💜 NATIVE PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Purple Poppy Mallow 💜🌸
Read story →: 🌸💜 NATIVE PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Purple Poppy Mallow 💜🌸Looking for a native plant that creates a spectacular carpet of color while providing food for pollinators? Meet Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata), sometimes called Winecups for its brilliant, cup-shaped flowers. 🌿…
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🏡🌿 NEIGHBORS FOR NATURE: One Yard Started a Movement
Read story →: 🏡🌿 NEIGHBORS FOR NATURE: One Yard Started a MovementWhat happens when one neighbor decides to make room for wildlife? In the Sonoran Desert outside Tucson, Arizona, Ellen Fountain transformed her 3.5-acre property into a wildlife oasis, planting native desert willow,…
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🌤️ Explore Outdoors: Watch the Clouds & Identify Their Types! ☁️
Read story →: 🌤️ Explore Outdoors: Watch the Clouds & Identify Their Types! ☁️Sometimes the best nature adventure begins by simply looking up! Find a comfortable spot outside, watch the sky for a few minutes, and see how many different kinds of clouds you can…
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🌎🔎 TEST YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE! 🌿🐝🦋
Read story →: 🌎🔎 TEST YOUR NATURE KNOWLEDGE! 🌿🐝🦋We’ve spent this week looking closer at some amazing connections—from buzz-pollinating bees and hummingbird-like moths to underground habitats and butterflies that depend on asters. How much do you remember? Let’s find out!…
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🌼🦋 BUZZ & BLOOM: White Woodland Aster & Pearl Crescent Butterfly
Read story →: 🌼🦋 BUZZ & BLOOM: White Woodland Aster & Pearl Crescent ButterflyAs summer begins to give way to fall, White Woodland Aster (Eurybia divaricata) starts lighting up shady woodland edges with clouds of small white flowers. And those little flowers can become busy…
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🌱🔎 HABITAT UPDATE: Beneath Your Feet
Read story →: 🌱🔎 HABITAT UPDATE: Beneath Your FeetWhen you think of wildlife habitat, you probably picture trees, flowers, birds, butterflies, and bees. But some of the busiest habitat in your yard is somewhere you rarely look— right beneath your…
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🦋🌸 POLLINATOR SPOTLIGHT: Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
Read story →: 🦋🌸 POLLINATOR SPOTLIGHT: Hummingbird Clearwing MothIs it a hummingbird? A bumble bee? A moth? If you’ve ever seen a fuzzy little creature hovering in front of a flower and wondered what you were looking at, you may…
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🌸⭐ NATIVE PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Shooting Star ⭐🌸
Read story →: 🌸⭐ NATIVE PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Shooting Star ⭐🌸It looks as though a tiny meteor shower has landed in the spring garden! Shooting Star (Primula meadia, formerly Dodecatheon meadia) is a distinctive native wildflower with nodding flowers held above a…
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🌿 Neighbors for Nature: Small Homes, Big Impact 🐝
Read story →: 🌿 Neighbors for Nature: Small Homes, Big Impact 🐝What happens when young people see a problem in nature and decide to do something about it? They become part of the solution. At a Girl Scout day camp in Denver, Girl…