Posts Tagged: yard
Local Trees: Consider the Redbud
Redbuds in bloom are a most welcome harbinger of spring. Their dense clusters of magenta flowers...
Wings of Life - Celebrating National Pollinator Week, June 17-23, 2024
The week of June 17-23 is National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the vital winged creatures we...
Updated Rat Management Resources
Rats can contaminate our food, damage structures, and spread diseases. To help residents and...
Applause for the Pollinators
Bees, butterflies, beetles, birds and bats. What do they have in common? Skipping the alliteration...
A Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, touches down on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The soldier beetle (family Cantharida) is also a pollinator. This insect resembles the uniforms of the British soldiers of the American Revolution. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, and a Western yellowjacket, Vespula penslvanica, sharing a rose. Both are pollinators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, and a bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, sharing a purple cone flower, Echinacea purpurea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Local Trees: The Enchanting Dogwood
Ideally, you'd be reading this in very early spring, when the dogwood bloom is beginning to work...