The Dirt
Bats are Beautiful!
Learn More About These Important Pollinators by Cheryl Soldati Clark There are so many misconceptions out there about bats. Bats are not evil, blood-thirsty creatures that fly around at night trying to get caught in your hair. Bats are graceful and fascinating nocturnal creatures, which benefit humans by pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, and feeding on insect […]
Bumblebees Love Purple
Why Do Bees Have a Favorite Color? by Sandy Swegel I visited one of my favorite suburban lawn alternative gardens yesterday. It’s a true pollinator’s heaven of nectar and pollen, right on a neighborhood street. Full of perennial gaillardia and rudbeckia, and reseeding annual larkspur, cleome and sunflower, the garden uses about the same amount […]
Stalking the Wild Monarch
All About the Monarch Butterfly by Sandy Swegel It’s Show and Tell time. It’s time to take the kids or some curious adults outside and prove your superior knowledge of the ways of nature and introduce them to butterfly eggs. It’s been a good milkweed year in the wild this year. Lots of spring rains […]