Flower flies: insects with a “PR problem”
Written on: February 15th, 2020The following is a very short summary of an excellent blog post on flower flies by Berit Erickson. Please be sure to read the full post here – Flower flies: ...
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What we are doing is important
Written on: February 15th, 2020by Renate Sander-Regier For years, researchers and journalists have been pointing to the dramatic loss of insects around the world (see links below). But insect ...
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Butterflies in your pollinator garden
Written on: January 17th, 2020by Sandy Garland Butterflies are not the best pollinators. As they perch on flowers with their long slender legs, they generally avoid the flower parts offering ...
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Written on: January 10th, 2020There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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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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