Landscaping with native plants at the Kerr Center office has taught us to have patience! The landscape takes time to naturalize and attract pollinators.
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Agroforestry practices could double the number of insect pollinators helping farmers produce food, new research has demonstrated.
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Moths play an important role in ecosystems – as nighttime pollinators – but their numbers are declining right along with bees’. Find out how to help!
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Deadlines are quickly approaching for a USDA-NRCS program that can help Oklahoma farmers and ranchers manage their property for monarch butterfly habitat.
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The most recent monarch numbers don’t look good. Keep planting milkweed, and fall flowering plants, to support them on both legs of their migration!
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Monarch Watch is now accepting pre-orders for milkweed plants, to be shipped in the spring. Seedlings are sold by the flat, with varieties sorted by region.
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David Redhage offers this book review of The Sunflower Family, a new ID guide from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT).
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How recently have you checked out the Kerr Center’s pollinator resource guides? We’ve just added several new titles to the list!
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Thanks to a shift to neonics over the last quarter century, U.S. croplands are now 50 times more toxic to honeybees, even with less pesticides applied.
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Pollinator Week is upon us - this national celebration extends from Monday, June 17 to Sunday, June 23! You can participate remotely by signing up for a webinar on insect declines presented by Xerces Society…continue reading 