by BeeWise | Nov 23, 2015 | Awareness, Insects, Native Ecology
When packing up for a short paddling trip in mid-September I noticed a monarch chrysalis on the side of my canoe. I carefully removed it and using masking tape attached it to a wire suspended from my house. Weeks passed and other monarchs matured and emerged but this...
by BeeWise | Oct 1, 2015 | Climate, Place, Pollution
by BeeWise | Apr 7, 2015 | Awareness, Native Ecology, Place
Vivid warmth in the ridge winds today’s distant problems keep a brisk pace while Killdeer run ahead giving away their secrets
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 | 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...
