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Can You Identify These Pollinators? Part 1: Bees, Wasps, Flies
During National Pollinator Week we challenged you to test your pollinator identification skills. Each day we featured a pollinator or two on our Facebook page with clues to the identity. This week we provide answers in three parts. Part 1 focuses on bees, wasps and flies. Continue reading
Posted in Pollinators
Tagged Apis mellifera, bees, Boltonia asteroides, Bombus auricomus, bumble bee, buzz pollination, digger wasp, Eastern bumble bee, entomology, Eupatroium hyssopifolium, European honey bee, flies, Flowers, fruit pollinators, gardening, Green Spring Gardens, ground-nesters, honeybee, hover flies, ladybugs, leafcutter bee, Ma, Master Gardener, MGNV, Monarda, nectar, pollen, pollinator, Scolia dubia, scolid wasps, Solidago canadensis, sonication, Sphex, sweat bee, syrphid fly, wasp
There is More to a Garden than Flowers and Foliage – Wildlife in the Shade Garden
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener In early spring, the Quarry/Shade Garden is hardly shady. Before the trees have leafed out, sun streams through bare branches beckoning the ephemerals to emerge and effloresce. As the canopy thickens, light dapples flowers of … Continue reading
Posted in Demonstration Gardens, Public Education, Shade Garden
Tagged 'Jacob Kline', (Sphyotrichum cordifolium, Apis mellifera, Argia fumipennis violacea, ASK before you ACT, Chesapeake Bay watershed, crab spiders, Creating Inviting Habitats, ephemerals, female violet dancer damselfly, Fisher's eastern chipmunk, Leucauge venusta, Monarda didyma, National Pollinator Week, northern brownsnake, orchard orb weaver spider, Poanes zabulon, Quarry/Shade Garden, Storeria dekayi dekayi, Tamias striatus fisheri, Terrapene carolina carolina, tiny syrphid fly, Troglodytes aedon, Wildlife of Arlington: A Natural Heritage Resource Inventory Technical Report, Zabulon skipper
