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Catherine
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#NativePlants Naturalist in training 🦋🐝🦉| 🥾 exploring nature trails 🦇 | Mid-Atlantic ecoregion Northern Piedmont 64a | 📚 And books. So many books.
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How your native plants are helping...
xercessociety.bsky.social The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · Sep 23
Where do bumble bees build their homes? Where do they spend the winter? And how do you protect bumble bees if their nests * overwintering sites are almost impossible to find? Join us to get all the answers! 🐝
🗓️Oct 2 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“The Secret Lives of Bumble Bees: Nesting and Overwintering” A bumble bee emerging from its burrow in the ground.
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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This year, volunteers broke participation records during the 9th edition of the #MonarchBlitz! Check out the incredible snapshot of milkweed plants and monarch butterflies across North America, as collected by all of you! 🌱🦋
👉Learn more at monarchblitz.org
“From 25 July to 3 August 2025, more than 9,000 participants across Canada, Mexico and the US contributed more than 19,000 observations, reporting over 71,000 milkweed plants and more than 33,000 monarchs! Learn more at monarchblitz.org” A map of North America, showing the amount of sightings of milkweed flowers and monarch butterflies by Monarch Blitz participants.
September 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Spring native flowers are showing up! Virginia bluebells, spring beauty, and violet. Feeding the bees! 🐝🌿
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April 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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My Amelanchier canadensis bloomed 🤩 I just planted it in the fall. So excited to see the early spring blooms, and that my hard work is paying off!!
#NativePlants 🌿🦋🐝
Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis), very young, with new white blooms.
April 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Plantain leaf sedge (Carex plantaginea) flowers are cute today! #NativePlants
March 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Thank you! 😷
March 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Plant a native plant or tree to start helping the butterflies and moths' recovery. Even 1 new one helps! Or Volunteer in a native plant garden if you don't have land/space of your own.
xercessociety.bsky.social The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · Mar 6
For every 5 butterflies seen 20 years ago, now there are only 4. While a few species have actually increased, many more have declined—some dramatically. Of 554 species, 107 declined by over 50%.
Even still, providing habitat & reducing pesticides can change things!
Learn more🔗 xerces.org/press
“20 Years of Data Shows That Butterfly Populations Are Severely Declining Across the USA” A butterfly, called a ruddy copper after its orange wings, resting on a plant.
March 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Good news 🦋
xercessociety.bsky.social The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · Mar 7
This year's eastern monarch survey, by @worldwildlife.org & Mexican conservationists, found butterflies covering trees across 4.42 acres of forest. This is more than last year (2.22 acres; the 2nd worst on record), but far from the 15+ that was once common. Learn more 🦋 xerces.org/press/number...
“Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Increases From Last Year, But Still Far Below Historical Numbers” Many monarch butterflies clustered together on the branch of an evergreen tree.
March 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.
Smudge the cat, who is mostly concerned just with what's going on in his own house.
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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If you see this, quote post with flowers from your gallery. 🌱🌿
#NativePlants
January 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM