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 | 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 | 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...
by BeeWise | Nov 20, 2013 | Native Ecology
Red cordage marks my west seeding boundary The Townline Road property is located two miles SE of Leaf River Illinois. Consisting of a dry-mesic limestone hill with wet-mesic oak savanna remnant at the base, the property was inherited by my mother and totals 40 acres....
by BeeWise | Oct 19, 2013 | Consumerism, Fracking, Industrial Ag, Native Ecology, Place, Pollinators, Pollution
With only 1/100th of 1% remaining, tallgrass and shortgrass prairies are one of the rarest ecosystems on the planet. Once expansive mosaics of interconnected diversity, these biomes extended through most of our midwestern states. Today prairie remnants are small...
by BeeWise | Sep 8, 2013 | Native Ecology, Place
An enthusiastic burden to the trained lover, I walk along the paths of forgery, complimenting through words but condemning through my eyes. The best intentions of most are circular variations of ones own selfish desires. I nod to the hum of wealthy meaninglessness,...
