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The Importance of Weedy Flowers for Butterflies
In our Platte River Prairies, regal fritillaries and other butterflies appear to depend heavily on a few weedy wildflower species as nectar plants. I was in graduate school when I first started...
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Butterflies on Noxious Weeds
As I mentioned in my last post, regal fritillaries are out in high numbers in our Platte River Prairies. We’re watching – among other things – what plant species they’re using for nectaring, and are...
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What’s Bugging Milkweed?
As I walked a small prairie here in Aurora, Nebraska a few weeks ago, several species of milkweed were flowering abundantly, including butterfly milkweed (Ascelepias tuberosa), showy milkweed...
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The Softer Side of Wasps
A couple weeks ago, I posted a photo of a wasp (along with some other shots from a walk through one of our wetlands) and mentioned that I’d have a story about that wasp in an upcoming post. Here you...
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Bee Goggles
One of the best outcomes from learning a lot about a group of species is that I start to see prairie through their eyes. That perspective has been really valuable for me and has led me to evaluate,...
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Photo of the Week – May 19, 2017
Over the last five years or so, I’ve been learning a lot more about pollinators, and that has changed the way I look at prairies. As I walk around our prairies, I often think about how I would see the...
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Back Door Thieves
I took a quick walk through one of our restored wetlands last week. Most plants had finished blooming for the year, but in some recently-mowed patches, there were some scattered flowers of beggarticks...
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