Closed for June 3 – More Pollinators

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:09:18 +0000

Howdy, BugFans,

A pollinator is an animal (not all pollinators are insects) that visits flowers and carries their pollen to other flowers. Bees, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, and wasps are all practitioners to some degree. Hummingbirds pollinate a few flowers (like wild columbine), and in the Southwest, a few bats do, too.

We’re well into National Pollinator Week now, and the news isn’t wonderful, so the BugLady is off-setting it with pictures of some really spiffy pollinators.

How can we help insects, including pollinators? Plant an array of native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees that will bloom from spring through fall, reduce or eliminate pesticides, provide brush piles and other shelter, don’t be a tidy gardener, and set out a bird bath (birds will appreciate this, too). In Wisconsin, plug into our ��Ի� monitoring programs.

Meanwhile – it’s National Pollinator Week – celebrate appropriately.

The BugLady

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WDNR: Bats of Neda Mine

engevold@uwm.edu — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Shy and secretive by day, but with more aerial agility than birds and the predatory ferocity of a polar bear by night, bats are amazing animals. They make up 20% of the world’s mammal diversity! Bats benefit us, share our neighborhoods and sometimes even our homes, but in recent years have faced a grave threat. South of Mayville, Neda Mine State Natural Area is one of the largest little brown bat hibernation sites in North America. Join Jennifer Redell, conservation biologist with the WI DNR’s Bat Program to learn about your neighborhood bats and what is being discovered about them. Virtually explore Neda Mine from the comfort of your chair! Hear how it is one of three mines in Wisconsin that are showing some promising signs of bat population recovery after dramatic losses from White-nose Syndrome.

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Closed for June 3 – More Pollinators

WDNR: Bats of Neda Mine