Pure Green Bee on White Aster
This is a Pure Green Bee (Augochlora pura) on White Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides), a lovely image for the Meet Your Neighbours global diversity project by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser.
Read MorePlease use eBird!
Are you using eBird? If you are logging all of your bird sightings there, helping scientists around the world via personal observations, fantastic – please share and recommend it to a friend! If not check it out yourself and sign up. It’s fast, easy, and free, and you’ll soon be addicted to entering all of your birds. You’ll have your own data stored forever alongside that of millions of others allowing us to better understand and help global avian populations. We especially need more citizen scientists filling in the blanks here in the Chautauqua-Allegheny...
Read MoreThe U.S. is part of the Earth
Continuing my recent theme of considering philosophical concerns in regard to conservation and education issues I wanted to discuss a problem that is persisting well into the 21st century: that America is the center of the universe and anything that happens outside of its boundaries is irrelevant in terms of our natural world. The most recent example of this is the outbreak of arctic air that poured into the U.S. We’ll be having another cold snap this week and most of our mainstream media, including “pundits” who have political agendas denying climate science, will go back...
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