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Protecting Biodiversity

How is Climate Crisis Affecting Native Plants?

September 5, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Gardeners are both stewards and guardians of our environment. We can make a difference in mitigating climate crisis in our own backyards, in our communities, and across our country.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Birds, climate crisis, drought, ecosystems, insects, invasive plants, native plants, wildfires

Why Natural Mosquito Control?

August 9, 2022 by Marion 2 Comments

Why natural mosquito control?  Excellent query!  If you are at all interested in preserving life on Earth (including yours), you will want to know the answer to this question. Mosquito […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Asian Tiger mosquito, bats, Collin Purrington PhD, gutter gloves, mosquito dunks, mosquito sprays, mosquitoes, natural mosquito control

Solutions for Insect Apocalypse

August 1, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Why should you care about solutions for insect apocalypse?  For many reasons. 

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: cedar waxwing, goldfinch, hummingbird, insect apocalypse, keystone native plants, monarch butterfly, National WIldlife Federation, pesticide overuse, sweat bee, Xerces Society

Garden Thugs: Chinese, European and Narrow Winged Mantises

July 4, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Garden thugs—Chinese, European and Narrow Winged Mantises– are evil alien creatures from Asia. You DO NOT want them in your native plant garden. They are indiscriminate predators of all insects, including beneficial insects.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Carolina mantis, Chinese mantis, European mantis, mantis egg cases, Narrow-winged mantis

It’s Official!

June 6, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Media Borough has been certified as a Bee City by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, thanks to the dedicated work of Linda Coulston

Filed Under: Bee City, Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Bee Campus USA, Bee City USA, bumblebees, native bees, pollinators, Xerces Society

Land Stewardship or Environmental Disaster–Which Would You Choose?

May 19, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Land stewardship is not just a feel good idea, it is essential to life on Earth.  Without the biodiversity necessary to support wildlife, ecosystems will collapse and we will not be able to survive. We really are totally dependent on nature for our very existence on this planet.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: bird decline, Callery pear tree, Doug Tallamy, environmental stewardship, Homegrown National Park, insect apocalypse, japanese honeysuckle, Japanese stiltgrass, kudzu, multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet vine

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