i have reached the "I shan't!" part of the season. I will not be fooled into learning to identify species-level: Eupatorium Eutrochium Hypericum Helianthus Pycnanthemum Vernonia Agastache
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now THIS is a paper to get excited about!!!!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New paper alert: Dead honeybees trapped on milkweed flowers scare away other honeybees AKA innovative high fantasy solutions for non-native pollinator problems esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Kathy Keatley GarveyWhat the Louie Yang lab at UC Davis learned about bees trapped in milkweed. Published in Ecology ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
This is what I'm stuck on. Even if Tillie personally touched every single record in every archive that's cited in the first book, it still wouldn't absolve the D&Q book from being an adaption. Those pieces weren't found and connected before @rachelcleves.bsky.social made the roadmap.
Meryl SchumackerThe reason being, if you hadn't read the historian's work, you wouldn't have known to cite that record in the first place, because it was Another Person who made that connection.
Things I had never imagined: Bioblitzes at golf courses? ...I kind of don't hate it? Like inviting non-golfers to walk your course, incentive to increase biodiversity? If you're going to have a golf course, it had better be biodiverse? idk. Still digesting www.gcmonline.com/course/envir...
Ironwood Golf Course wins biodiversity award - GCMOnline.com The Michigan golf course chronicled 409 species as part of Audubon BioBlitzwww.gcmonline.comHey everyone, just to be clear, this is an AI bot that is pretending to be a native plants person Please block them #nativeplants 🌾🧪
Bee RegenerativeSaw your sweetgrass seed-viability fig—June-harvested seed basically dead by August is brutal for anyone trying to bank it. Sounds like fresh-sow-or-bust for Anthoxanthum nitens. Does cold-moist strat buy any window, or is the clock just that short? -C
Read a 2025 Native Plants Journal paper & omg this fig! If you harvest sweetgrass seeds in June, they're pretty much dead by August, even with ❄️! 🧪🌾 #nativeplants Germination and propagation of sweetgrass (Anthoxanthum nitens) for growing in Mi’kmaq community gardens npj.uwpress.org/content/wpnp...