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How Important is Your Native Plant Garden?

August 12, 2024 by Marion Leave a Comment

How Important is Your Native Plant Garden?  Very!  Your native plants could mean the difference between life or death to birds, pollinators, and other insects—not to mention everything else further up the food chain. 

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Bee City, biodiversity, Green Wagon Project, ird Town, Media Borough, native plants, Tree Tenders, Xerces Society

Why Are Insects Important?

April 4, 2023 by Marion Leave a Comment

Why are insects important?  Because they are vital to all life on this planet, including yours. E.O Wilson called insects the little things that run the world. 

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: biodiversity, climate change, climate crisis, Doug Tallamy, E.O. Wilson, insect apocalypse, insects, microplastics, pollinators, TTM Biodiversity Group, Xerces Society

Creative Gifts For Native Plant Gardeners

December 1, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Make dreams come true with a special holiday gift for the native plant gardener in your life.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Audubon Society, Doug Tallamy, Heather Holm, Homegrown National Park, National WIldlife Federation, native plants, Xerces Society

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

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

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