Building biodiversity and resilience to a changing climate at the ecosystems level through pollinator-plant interactions.
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Native to the Eastern United States, black cohosh is the sole host plant for the Appalachian Azure butterfly. Support the Appalachian Azure and 94 other at-risk pollinator species by planting what they need: landscapeinteractions.com/po…
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Pollinator/native plant folks: this guy is doing extraordinary work, including a bioregional pollinator plan along the Hudson River involving 51 communities. Check it out! @hart_hagan @cognitivepolicy @Bio4Climate @Soil_Centric @BugLundgren #PollinateNow
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How to save New York state pollinators--and the plants they depend on. Important stuff based on serious research.
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Plant of the day: Shrubby St. Johns-wort.
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Spiraea alba is a shrub that is often mistaken for a flower, and can be established from both seed and plug. It is a preferred pollen source for at-risk bumblebees as well as solitary bees across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Central United States.
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Pollen-gathering feast featuring the at-risk Bombus terricola with Lasioglossum subgenus Lasioglossum, Andrena sp. and Lasioglossum subgenus Dialictus (Metallic sweat bees). Music: Boris with Michio Kurihara #landscapedesign #nativeplants #biodiversity
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In 2020, Landscape Interactions converted a public park of mowed grass into a biodiverse landscape design to support pollinators.
Now we have 7 bumblebee species on site, including 2 at-risk species.
Science informs the design, guides the process and measures the results.
Special gratitude to Dr. Robert Gegear of UMass-Dartmouth and to Elizabeth Keen of the Egremont Agricultural Commission.
Plants can change the world. Learn more:
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Submit your bumblebee + butterfly observations to Beecology:
beecology.wpi.edu/webapp/app…
Presenting tomorrow at the @NOFAMass conference! To learn more, download the free
plan for creating and maintaining #biodiversity on farmscapes at landscapeinteractions.com/pr…, and check out our episode on the NOFA podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Northeast people! Presenting our chat about designing climate-resilient food and pollination systems on a working farm. For your commute to work or putting the little ones to sleep. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Humans depend upon wild pollinators and biodiversity for our health and survival. Food systems can’t be supported by honeybees alone. ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.128…
Check out this salt/drought-tolerant sidewalk strip design we did for Northampton, MA - can’t wait to bring this approach to the future Brooklyn Pollinator Corridor with @V6A_coLab! Using native plants to build #biodiversity and support at-risk #pollinators, one city at a time.
We’re looking forward to working with @V6A_coLab on the Brooklyn Pollinator Network 🐝 If you live in Brooklyn and want to turn your yard, tree pit, or sidewalk strip into native pollinator habitat, respond to the open call for participants here: tinyurl.com/ndf3dxrz
Evan Abramson retweeted
84 years ago we understood that burning fossil fuels was raising the levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere, and causing the planet to warm.
The theory was understood earlier but this was the first observation & attribution of climate change. #COP27
In 1938.
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Evan Abramson retweeted
Such a vital, well-researched plan, which can be replicated/adapted throughout coastal New England. Thx for doing the heavy lifting for #pollinators @Soil_Centric @bio4climate @MitchAnthony
Landscape Interactions launches Farming for Biodiversity, a guide for creating habitat on farmscapes across Martha’s Vineyard to support at-risk pollinators. drive.google.com/file/d/1-al… @MassPollinators @bymattkelly @alannogee @judithdschwartz @RegenFdn @DaveGoulson
Landscape Interactions launches Farming for Biodiversity, a guide for creating habitat on farmscapes across Martha’s Vineyard to support at-risk pollinators. drive.google.com/file/d/1-al… @MassPollinators @bymattkelly @alannogee @judithdschwartz @RegenFdn @DaveGoulson
Evan Abramson retweeted
It is 60 years to the day since Silent Spring was published. In 1962, 37 pesticides were available to farmers. Today, there are more than 1,000, and total use is up tenfold. Rachel Carson would weep.
#SilentEarth @PAN_UK @WildlifeTrusts
