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Vox posted an important story yesterday about the high rate of species extinction in Hawaii. Hawaii is off-limits for me now, but I have fond memories. Please, whenever you read something about the ongoing mass extinction crisis, write a story on...
by CorpFlunky
on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 09:05 AM PST
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It’s November, cool and rainy in Western Oregon. The plants in my garden in Eugene are going to sleep for the winter, as are the bees and other insects that visited my blooms this summer. I have ...
by birdsandbees23
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
with 162 Recommends
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I spent about three hours wandering through a portion of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge .� My goal was to walk at a slower pace and carefully observe and absorb the web of life that makes this ...
by BrownsBay
on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 06:30 AM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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Give bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds what they need with native pollinator plants Cardinal Flower, Swamp Milkweed, Aromatic Aster, Butterfly Weed, Bee Balm, and Salvia These are native perennials with beautiful, abundant flowers that will supply...
by TobiasMook
on Fri Jul 21, 2023 at 09:14 AM PDT
with 22 Recommends
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Farewell to Spring blooming at the start of summer. It’s officially summer in my small urban garden in Eugene, OR. Just after the solstice a native annual called Farewell-to-Spring (aka Satin ...
by birdsandbees23
on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 46 Recommends
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May 20th has been designated World Bee Day by the United Nations. Here is a poem in celebration for this day. While we know bees the world over are in trouble due to the use of pesticides and other poisons on our crops and fields, along with the stress...
by Paul Frea
on Sat May 20, 2023 at 03:30 PM PDT
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Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, April 22nd, 2023. This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and regional news of interest, and opens the floor for...
by randallt
on Sat Apr 22, 2023 at 09:11 AM PDT
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When I was a kid, there were bees everywhere. They’d be on the clover, the dandelions, and any other flowers that happened to be around. I must have been stung a dozen times. But now that I think of it, I don’t see a heck of a lot of bees anymore....
by skralyx
on Sun Apr 09, 2023 at 09:07 PM PDT
with 224 Recommends
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After the March 20 spring equinox , the annual flowering and pollinator season is finally here. �In the Northwest, crocus. violets, and flowering trees and shrubs are blooming. Tree in bloom in a ...
by birdsandbees23
on Mon Apr 03, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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�It had been a cool, wet spring in the Northwest where I live, with constant rain and some flooding. But this past week the� summer dry season arrived with a vengeance in the form off a record-...
by birdsandbees23
on Thu May 18, 2023 at 07:02 AM PDT
with 36 Recommends
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March 2023 Pacific Northwest At long last, spring has arrived in the PNW islands, marked as much by temperature as light. Our unusually cold temps, especially at night over these past couple of months, delayed some spring nature events this year, like...
by OceanDiver
on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 39 Recommends
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Now that spring is at last on the way, slowly in some regions, sooner in others – in the Willamette Valley crocuses are blooming and the flower buds on shrubs and trees are getting bigger - �I am ...
by birdsandbees23
on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 07:20 AM PST
with 34 Recommends
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I hadn’t thought about special vehicle license plates for pollinators, but I’m happy the idea is catching on.
I recently learned that the Department of Agriculture at Oregon State University is ...
by birdsandbees23
on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 07:06 AM PST
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I wanted to put a habitat sign in my front yard to let neighbors know what I’ve been up to with all the lawn removal and planting activity. I finally decided on this one. It is sturdy metal, nine inches wide, two holes for mounting, and covers the...
by birdsandbees23
on Wed Jan 25, 2023 at 08:56 AM PST
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In 2022, I began to transform my small urban yard – just a tenth of an acre in size – from mostly grass to wildlife habitat in response to Doug Tallamy’s call to create a Homegrown National Park. https://homegrownnationalpark.org/tallamys-hub-1 I knew...
by birdsandbees23
on Wed Jan 04, 2023 at 01:42 PM PST
with 37 Recommends
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I confess, my past gardening habits contributed to the mess we are in now. You have seen the headlines: Massive Decline of Bird Populations! Declining Bee Populations Pose a Threat to Global Agriculture! I thought: well that sucks, but what can I, with...
by birdsandbees23
on Tue Jan 03, 2023 at 10:46 AM PST
with 29 Recommends
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Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.
The BBC had a recent report on a cool new trend “bee bus stops”, pollinator gardens on the roofs of bus shelters. Apparently the trend ...
by samanthab
on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 07:30 AM PDT
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August is high summer in the Pacific Northwest. Dry and warm. Our spring was exceedingly wet and cool: peas, asparagus, rhubarb, lettuce did very well. The cool weather slowed many things down, like the blueberries, which we’re still eating now, deep...
by OceanDiver
on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 09:59 AM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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June is National Pollinators Month. And we need these hard-working critters if we want to keep eating! Insect pollinators include bees, (honey bees, solitary species, bumblebees); pollen wasps (Masarinae); ants; flies including bee flies, hoverflies,...
by strawbale
on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Voices of the Air
Katherine Mansfield
But then there comes that moment rare
When, for no cause that I can find,
The little voices of the air
Sound above all the sea and wind.
The sea and ...
by strawbale
on Fri Apr 01, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 39 Recommends
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