Botanical garden brings the buzz to the Athens community
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A commitment to promoting pollinator plants leads to Bee Campus designation
The buzz around UGA this spring is coming from East Campus Road and Sanford Drive.
That’s where bees, butterflies and other insects are gathering around new pollinator plant beds installed to raise awareness of importance of native plants, as well as draw attention to the university’s recent Bee Campus USA designation.
“Of course we want a beautiful landscape with lots of flowers. We can have that and also support wildlife in a big way,” says Lauren Muller, conservation outreach coordinator for the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. “We want to teach people that even a small garden can make a difference, because we’re connecting patches of habitat throughout urban and suburban areas through which insects and birds can move and find shelter and food.”
Hendersonville celebrates Earth Week with events, giveaways, neighborhood challenge
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Environmental Awareness Month
Mayor Barbara Volk has proclaimed April 2021 as Environmental Awareness Month in the city of Hendersonville. The proclamation emphasizes the priority the city places on environmental sustainability programs and encourages the public to participate and make Hendersonville a better place to live.
Pollinators
The city of Hendersonville celebrates Earth Day every day by being certified as a Bee City USA affiliate. In its joint effort to continue to fulfill the city’s commitments to create healthy habitats for pollinators, the Tree Board takes the lead on planting projects and maintaining a recommended species list while the Environmental Sustainability Board heads up educational events to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. EGSC foundation receives grant for honeybees, pollinator garden In this photo by Katelyn Moore via East Georgia State College, the East Georgia State College Beekeeping Club installs a beehive.
The East Georgia State College Foundation recently received two grants from the Mill Creek Foundation to supply honeybees for the EGSC Bobcat Apiary and to establish a wildflower pollinator garden at the main campus. The EGSC Bobcat Apiary was established in 2015 on the campus to help educate local school groups and visitors, and EGSC students, faculty and staff about the importance of pollinators. In 2016, the college was designated as the 14th Bee Campus USA affiliate in the nation. The current project involves expanding the apiary by purchasing honeybees to set up eight honeybee hives. Five hives
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The monarch is nectaring on showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa), which is the most widespread milkweed in Utah. The other insects are a bumble bee (it looks like the brown-belted bumble bee) and a potter wasp; both occur in Utah.
Credit U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Insects have a reputation for “bugging” us humans with their bites, stings and incessant buzzing. While we may wish they would just go away, researchers have concerns about declining “bug biomass” and how it could impact us.
We know a lot about dinosaurs and the earth they lived in from studying fossils. Insects have been around even longer showing up with land plants and outlasting dinosaurs through five mass extinctions.