@vtchewbecca.bsky.social
Cat mom, book lover, pollinator gardener, crocheter, house plant fan.
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Help your local bugs beat the heat and give them a drink! Access to water can help bees, butterflies, and other pollinators survive the summer heat. Adding a water feature to your yard, garden, or balcony is an easy way to create much-needed habitat for wildlife.
xerces.org/blog/if-your...
xerces.org/blog/if-your...
If You’re Thirsty, They’re Thirsty: Make a Simple Water Source To Support Pollinators
Even a humble puddle can make a big impact for your backyard wildlife. Learn how to make one that fits your space.
xerces.org
June 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Help your local bugs beat the heat and give them a drink! Access to water can help bees, butterflies, and other pollinators survive the summer heat. Adding a water feature to your yard, garden, or balcony is an easy way to create much-needed habitat for wildlife.
xerces.org/blog/if-your...
xerces.org/blog/if-your...
The fun of living with cats. Surprise attacks.
June 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The fun of living with cats. Surprise attacks.
Two-spotted bumblebee on wild bergamot. 🥰🐝
June 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Two-spotted bumblebee on wild bergamot. 🥰🐝
Check out How to Talk with Your Neighbors: homegrownnationalpark.org/how-to-talk-... from Homegrown National Park. #PollinatorWeek
How to Talk with Your Neighbor - Homegrown National Park
Talking To Neighbors About Native Plants Turn Curiosity into Meaningful Conversations How to Answer Common Questions from Your Neighbor What are these plants in your yard? This is a great moment to sh...
homegrownnationalpark.org
June 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Check out How to Talk with Your Neighbors: homegrownnationalpark.org/how-to-talk-... from Homegrown National Park. #PollinatorWeek
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For #PollinatorWeek, we’ve put together all the information you’ll need to make your own pollinator garden into one place. Learn how to pick the right plants, manage issues without pesticides, and provide the nesting habitat that bees & butterflies need to thrive! 🌻🐝🎓
How to Make a Pollinator Garden
Gardens provide important food and shelter for pollinators. We've put together a list of tips that will help you prioritize the health and safety of these important garden inhabitants.
xerces.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For #PollinatorWeek, we’ve put together all the information you’ll need to make your own pollinator garden into one place. Learn how to pick the right plants, manage issues without pesticides, and provide the nesting habitat that bees & butterflies need to thrive! 🌻🐝🎓
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This bee & its close cousins are disappearing. 🐝🆘 #PollinatorWeek
The story starts in California, but it has national consequences. 1/3 of our food depends on pollinators. Meet the bees that @defenders.org, @cfstruefood.bsky.social, & Xerces are working to protect ⤵️
The story starts in California, but it has national consequences. 1/3 of our food depends on pollinators. Meet the bees that @defenders.org, @cfstruefood.bsky.social, & Xerces are working to protect ⤵️
Four Bees, One Future: Why Saving California’s Bumble Bees Matters to Us All
The Xerces Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Food Safety asked California in 2018 to give four endangered bumble bees full protection under state law. After years of public input,…
xerces.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This bee & its close cousins are disappearing. 🐝🆘 #PollinatorWeek
The story starts in California, but it has national consequences. 1/3 of our food depends on pollinators. Meet the bees that @defenders.org, @cfstruefood.bsky.social, & Xerces are working to protect ⤵️
The story starts in California, but it has national consequences. 1/3 of our food depends on pollinators. Meet the bees that @defenders.org, @cfstruefood.bsky.social, & Xerces are working to protect ⤵️
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No Climate Action, No Food.
Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth...
Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!
Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!
‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest
Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.
www.independent.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
No Climate Action, No Food.
Always love seeing all the different insects who visit my gardens.
June 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Always love seeing all the different insects who visit my gardens.
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