This week I demonstrate how to monitor burlap bands installed for selective spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) control. See Mondays with Martha #98 for a full description of the burlap banding technique, #80 for egg mass control in the winter, and...
Happy National Pollinator Week! In celebration, I highlight a beautiful, bee-friendly native wildflower, common spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis). Learn how best to incorporate this prairie plant into your landscape and offer pollinators important resources during that tricky early to mid-June lull...
I follow up last week's post about how to help our native turtles with a behind-the-scenes look at Chippewa Nature Center's (CNC) turtle monitoring program. Learn about how and why they are trapping and tagging turtles, but please do not...
This week I explain why our native turtles need our help and offer a dozen ways you can lend them a helping hand. Especially right now as we enter peak nesting season, watch for them along the roads and help...
Our mission at Nature Niche is to help our customers be good stewards of the environment we all share and connect with nature. Environmental education is a significant and meaningful part of what we do as a business, and the...
Happy Memorial Day! This week I share a cool looking wildflower that occurs in relatively undisturbed riverbanks and floodplain forests, green dragon (Arisaema dracontium). Closely related to jack-in-the-pulpit and shaped much like the fronds of maidenhair fern, this species' flower...
This week I share a favorite spring wildflower, common trillium (Trillium grandiflorum). Learn how to identify this woodland wonder and why digging it up in the wild is not a good idea. If you want to add it to your...
This week I share how to identify and manage a notorious forest invasive species, garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). Now's the time to act to help conserve our beautiful woodland spring ephemerals and native tree seedlings! For more info on garlic...
This coming Saturday is the first half of the 2022 World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) Campaign! To celebrate I share its history and highlight key messages about this year's theme: the impact of light pollution on migratory birds. I discuss...
