Pollinators

Goldenrod Pollinator Perils: Crab Spiders, Ambush Bugs, and “Zombie Flies.”
Goldenrod
boggs.47@osu.edu Sat, 10/05/2024 - 09:35
The late-season blooms of goldenrod attract a plethora of pollinators including flies. The convergence of pollinators also attracts a range of predators that make a living on these beneficial insects. Nature doesn’t play favorites.
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Remember the Forgotten During Pollinator Week: June 17 – 24, 2024

Flies on Shasta Daisy
This is “National Pollinator Week” (June 17 – 24). The non-profit “Pollinator Partnership” conceived the idea in 2007 to encourage groups and communities to hold celebrations and awareness campaigns highlighting the importance of pollinators. That same year, the U.S. Senate designated the third week of June to be the official celebratory week for the recognition of pollinators.
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Joe Boggs
Nature Note: Skunk Cabbage is in Bloom
The bloom of skunk cabbage surrounded by leaf litter.
young.2 Thu, 03/07/2024 - 15:07
Skunk cabbage (a.k.a. swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, meadow cabbage or polecat weed) (Symplocarpus foetidus) may be one of the earliest blooming spring flowers in Ohio. Its flowers could be easily overlooked by the causal observer.
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Curtis E. Young

Ponds, Wildlife, Woodlands…Oh My! Join us at the Gwynne Conservation Area, September 19-21

Photo of the pond and cabin at the Gwynne Conservation Area
You are likely familiar with OSU’s Farm Science Review, a 3-day educational tradeshow that features the latest in agricultural production. But do you know that just across the road, accessible by wagons running throughout each day, is a literal playground for natural resource enthusiasts? Welcome to the Gwynne Conservation Area! The Gwynne is a 67-acre conservation area where conservation demos, talks, displays, and tours are held during Farm Science Review, September 19-21, in London, Ohio. Featuring a pond, wetland, tallgrass prairie, stream, pawpaw orchard, forage plots, and a wagon tour...
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Carrie Brown
New FactSheet - Native Trees: Creating Living Landscapes for Birds, Butterflies, Bees and Other Beneficials
Yellow Rumped Warbler, Photo Credit: George Sydlowski (Lucas County, Ohio)
stone.91@osu.edu Thu, 05/04/2023 - 16:46
Be sure to check out a new Ohio State University Extension's FactSheet entitled, Native Trees: Creating Living Landscape for Birds, Butterflies, Bees and Other Beneficials. This FactSheet can be found online on the Ohioline website at: https://ohioline.osu.edu/ Or, the direct link to the FactSheet is: https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5815
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Amy Stone

Soil Mining Bees on the Wing

Dalton Westerbeck with Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum e-mailed me Wednesday to report that soil "mining bees" are waking from their winter naps. Dalton is an ISA Certified Arborist and an Ohio State Beekeepers Association, Master Beekeeper. He is locating and marking all of the mining bee "colonies" in the Grove so he can document their population densities and seasonal development.
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Joe Boggs

National Pollinator Week Begins Today

Pollinator Week Logo

The Pollinator Partnership is proud to announce that June 18-24, 2018 has been designated National Pollinator Week. This week long observation is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what can be done to protect them.

 

Eleven years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown into an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided...

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Amy Stone
Ground-Nesting Bees on the Wing
Ground Nesting Bee Burrow
boggs.47@osu.edu Tue, 04/11/2017 - 14:53
The starting point for yesterday's Southwest Ohio BYGLive! Diagnostic Walk-About held at Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum was inadvertently located in the middle of a very busy ground-nesting bee bailiwick. This sparked an impromptu discussion on the behavior and importance of these native pollinators.
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Joe Boggs
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