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While corn and soybeans dominate the Midwestern landscape today, some farmers are integrating strips of native prairie back into their fields. This conservation practice has expanded to more than a dozen states.
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From chocolate to apples, the majority of our diet wouldn’t be possible without some of nature’s hardest workers: bees.
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It’s the time of year when Monarch butterflies migrate through the Midwest, and butterfly tagging events are held nearly every weekend. However, these events have bigger goals than just collecting data.
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Recent survey results show commercial honeybees are on track to have another year of colony losses. A decline in these essential pollinators could hinder food production.
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Learn just the right way to swish a net, snap a pic and upload it to Xerces Society scientists hungry for information about the bumblebees near you.
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Today on Growing on the High Plains, we’ll dig into the benefits of making your home garden a welcome home for wildlife, insects, and other critters. By…
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As our short days of winter flutter by, many High Plains gardeners (like myself) have our minds on the forthcoming growing season. Today's Growing on the…
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Today, Skip talks with Anthony Zukoff, and gets his list of favorite plants to put in your pollinator garden. They are: blazing star, bee balm, golden…
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Today we'll talk with Anthony Zukoff. He's an expert in Ecology, Zoology, and Entomology. We'll get to know a little about the man, what took him from his…
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Over the past few years, bees and other pollinators have been disappearing from America, reports The Rural Blog. Last year the Obama administration called…