Ottawa Stewardship Council’s Kanata North Regeneration Stewards

Written on: July 12th, 2024

by Berit Erickson On July 6th, Wild Pollinator Partners organized a tour of the Kanata North Pollinator Patch (and related projects) in the Kanata North Hydro ...

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Down to the nitty gritty: creating the Churchill Alternative School butterfly garden

Written on: February 22nd, 2020

by Berit Erickson Once I had created a successful pollinator garden of my own [see Berit’s Corner Pollinator Garden], I began to see prime locations for ...

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Agapostemons in the Corner Pollinator Garden

Written on: June 26th, 2019

by Berit Erickson (reproduced with permission from Berit’s web site: Ottawa cousins of Toronto’s unofficial bee) This week, while I was supposed to be ...

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Andrena – or mining – bees

Written on: February 8th, 2018

by Sandy Garland Although Andrenid species are common, you may not have noticed these little gold bees. The hibernating adults emerge from underground tunnels in ...

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