In most contexts, it’s considered a bad practice, even a form of cruelty, to feed wild animals. If you’ve been to a national park, you’ve seen and heard the warnings. I recall a visit to Yosemite where messaging about not feeding bears was pervasive. The Park’s 300-500 black…
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[First a housekeeping note: after today, The Bees’ Knees will be shifting from a weekly to an “occasional” publication schedule. All is well and I’ll…
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As I write this on Superbowl Sunday, y’all are noshing on your seven-layer dip and watching grown-ass men chase each other around a big field. Neither…
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Like many of you, I find the statistics on pollinator declines distressing. More than a quarter of our native bumble bee species are at risk of…
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Let Sedge Give You the Edge
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I’ve spent most of my life on the East Coast of the U.S. – in southern New England and the Mid-Atlantic, to be specific – so my default image of…
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Plant ID Apps
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Wolves were driven out of Yellowstone National Park a hundred years ago. Then in 1995, a few were reintroduced. The beneficial impact from their return…
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