Who’s that “little black bee”?
Written on: December 31st, 2019by Lydia Wong (with expert contributions from Eden Gerner) When it comes to identifying bees on the wing, certain species or genera tend to stand out. Take the ...
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Mosquitoes – important pollinators?
Written on: December 31st, 2019by Sandy Garland Although it seems that mosquitoes are out to get us, in fact males don’t bite at all and females do so only when they are ready to produce ...
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Cleaning seeds with CWF
Written on: December 12th, 2019by Sandy Garland Collecting seeds for the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s habitat restoration project on October 20 was fun (see Collecting seeds with CWF), but ...
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Seed collecting with CWF
Written on: December 12th, 2019by Sandy Garland, photos by Li-Shien Lee WPP has been interested in and supportive of a large project that the Canadian Wildlife Federation is conducting: restoring ...
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City Hall pollinator garden – year 1 in review
Written on: November 25th, 2019by Amy MacPherson (reproduced, with permission, from the Pollinators page on the City of Ottawa web site) In June 2019, the City of Ottawa established a small ...
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Pollinators in our spiritual gardens
Written on: November 13th, 2019Text and photos by Katherine Forster After a successful 2018 mini-pilot donating “pollinator plants” to faith and spiritual communities (thanks to the generosity of ...
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