Greensboro Birds

NB: In the 18 months that I’ve been toiling at this incarnation of Greensboro Birds, I’ve had almost 23,000 unique visits and, as of a few minutes ago, 45,504 page views! Not bad for a little bird blog, right? And it’s proof that even though our enthusiasm for the natural world often seems to go, [...]

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Hey yo, where my bees at?!? Check out this awesome PSA about colony collapse from helpthehoneybees.com. Sponsored by Häagen-Dazs, the lush site (with relaxing birdsong!) contains info about our disappearing bees and how we might help them, as well as some fun time-killing stuff like the Sims-style Make a Bee page. Here’s mine:

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Here’s a new insect for my life list: the cow killer ant, aka red velvet ant. Technically a wasp, the cow killer is named for its exceedingly painful sting, which probably couldn’t really kill a cow, but it’s so nasty that you wouldn’t be surprised if it did.

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Summer is cranked up to a crazy pitch in our garden. Everything is blooming, birds are nearly finished fledging, and butterflies are flapping around everywhere we look. This is a tiny sunflower that found itself a spot to take root next to the dry creek. Phaon crescents are almost always on it, as are tiny [...]

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Few flowers in our garden attract more attention than these coneflowers. As soon as the morning dew dries, the big blooms see a constant stream of butterflies, bees, beetles, and even the occasional curious hummingbird. Eastern tiger swallowtails in particular enjoy them, as do the bumblebees from the nearby colony at the edge of the [...]

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