by BeeWise | Aug 28, 2014 | Native Ecology, Place, Pollinators
Photos taken at Breidel Coulee, La Crosse County Wisconsin on August 27th, 20141. Monarch Butterfly on Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)2. Spur Throated grasshopper (sp.?) on Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed)3. Variegated Meadowhawk on Scirpus atrovirens (Dark-green...
by BeeWise | Apr 23, 2014 | Consumerism, Place
When humid air rests on arms, bare for the first afternoon in half a year, life begins to happen, and bored eyes begin to re-explore, the sacred spectacle of time. (April in the...
by BeeWise | Apr 23, 2014 | Native Ecology, Place, Pollinators, Uncategorized
A Syrphid fly visits Pasque Flower on a windy spring afternoon. What can you do, in a seasonal desert, but search for perfection, means of living or dying, not by illness, or natural selection, but the economists...
by BeeWise | Apr 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
1. When the snow melts, and daylight hours begin to cast a warm light, Pasque Flowers (Anemone patens) surface to welcome another year. 2. An American couple pause to reflect on a coal fired power plant below. 3. The most sacred grounds, of the rarest beauty, traveled...
by BeeWise | Mar 2, 2014 | Industrial Ag, Native Ecology, Pollinators, Uncategorized
Neonicotinoids (neo-nih-CAH-tin-oids) are systemic chemicals, which are absorbed into the plant’s vascular system, leaving the entire plant toxic to both target and non-target insects. Systemic chemicals affect the central nervous system of insects, resulting...
