Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp in Ottawa bee boxes

 Written on: March 21st, 2022

By Lydia Wong This post is an excerpt from updates sent to those following Lydia’s research project on the effects of urban warming on cavity-nesting insects. If ...

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Cavity nesters: leafcutter bees

 Written on: January 8th, 2022

By Lydia Wong This post is an excerpt from updates sent to those following Lydia’s research project on the effects of urban warming on cavity-nesting insects. If ...

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Cavity nesters: who are they and what are they doing now

 Written on: November 7th, 2021

by Lydia Wong This post is an excerpt from updates sent to those following Lydia’s research project on the effects of urban warming on cavity-nesting insects. If ...

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City Hall pollinator garden – year 1 in review

 Written on: November 25th, 2019

by 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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Students meet pollinators

 Written on: June 10th, 2019

by Mira K.K., photos by Edgar Rene Hernandez & students In early May, Renate Sander-Regier, a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics ...

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Bee box workshops

 Written on: April 27th, 2018

by Sandy Garland Our first events of 2018 were two workshops to build Mason Bee boxes, held on Sunday afternoons, April 8 and 15, and we couldn’t be more ...

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