Tag Archive: pollinators

Hearts Aflutter As Certain Butterflies Make Comeback

Catherine Sherriffs

Not all hope is lost for the world’s important pollinators! A recent study has found butterflies in the UK are making somewhat of a comeback. The annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) found more than two-thirds of butterfly species were spotted in more abundant numbers last year compared to in 2017. Two of the rarest…

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How Technology Is Copying Nature To Get Important Work Done

Somebody once told me that the most civilized model for business is nature. He told me if people would stop fighting nature and look to it instead for inspiration and common sense, they would find the answers they need to succeed. A successful businessman himself, James Cox runs Method Seven, a company that designs grow…
November 9, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Do Your Part! Tips For Wildlife Conservation In The Garden

Here’s a scary thought: declining populations of pollinators is putting the existence of certain plants in jeopardy. In the U.S., the list of endangered pollinators includes two types of insects, four kinds of bats, 16 different birds, and 25 butterfly, skipper and moth species. You and I can do something about it! This year, plant…
April 18, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Neonicotinoid Pesticides Proven More Harmful

As if contributing to the magnitude of bee and butterfly losses wasn’t reason enough to greatly curb or cease use of neonicotinoid pesticides, recent news piles on added concerns. Bees & Pollinators Let’s start with the bees. Some may assume getting overly concerned about bee losses is silly, because their numbers inflate significantly each spring…
December 10, 2016
Callie

Bats: Garden Pest Control

Bats aren’t creepy. They’re actually a huge asset to both yard and garden pest control that is also, all natural and totally free. Being afraid of bats is the result of watching too many spooky movies! And they aren’t transmitters of diseases like rabies anymore than other wild animals and birds that regularly visit backyards. And…
November 4, 2016
Amber

U.S. Wild Bee Loss Documented

The University of Vermont’s study on the current state of wild bees has been completed, and as many of us suspected, there is a serious decline in wild bee populations in the United States. Measuring wild bee loss took several years, and is the work of several universities across the country. What they found is unsettling, but…
January 1, 2016
Tammy Clayton