Marsh Maiden

Ha ha, those would be scary.

Not too hard to add another pair of wings and I bet there is a naturalist out there that would be willing to consult

So do you think Ikea tried to depict a hoverfly or a bee ?

Thought of cutting and sticking things like honeysuckle, buckthorn, callery pear, autumn olive in my front yard for scary decorations.... anyone else doing that

She also started thinking if filtering run off through the same substrate 3x will make different water results - so she's testing that

And then she captured the runoff into jars to be tested for ph, ammonia, phosphate etc (that I took her to work for)

Ha ha gladly

7th grader doing science fair. Bc teacher told her she can't do pollinator observations (no independent variable) she wanted to see if different soils filter water differently. So testing though sand, compost (she thought it's a good sub for organic soil) and mix

'Seeds' by Paula Cunningham, from Heimlich's Manoeuvre

#poetry
#poemoftheday

Where are you my prairie and wetland friends and colleagues?

This is so sad on how this reflects on our society

Science fair project season is upon us ! This is how I got into science so I hope junior gets the bug too

Celebrating Polish AM Heritage Month

Three ecologists plant seedlings

Our experiment manipulates whether habitat fragments are connected by corridors, as well as how much edge fragments have

After starting populations of these species in each fragment (by transplanting), we've tracked growth of their populations for the past 18 years

Slamming the protester and also these guns, why do we need these in the city

Biali, nielegalni, nietykalni Na pozór spełniają swój amerykański sen: dom, samochód, dzieci w dobrych szkołach, weekendy w Wisconsin i wakacje na Florydzie.

Jak Polonia reaguje na ICE

How does the Polish-AM community react to ICE (in Polish, fyi about a third of pur community is undocumented and we def benefit from white privledge )

Excellent article www.dziennikzwiazkowy.com/artykul/1329...

True... true....

The asclepias should not be so hard.....different pods, different leaves

I have to check out your methods bc yeah you can add to seedlings ir the restoration itself - so.many.thing.to.think.about

A👏MAZING

Awesome! So, theoretically (or maybe practically) speaking, would you be able to extract the remnant community from a remnant desired spot and amplify those results to be used on a nearby restoration?

(Ie not using a stockpile community but figuring out what the local community is and using that)

New England Aster in the Midwest

Would love to know, including how you know the native ones from non native ones and how you would convince folks who are skeptical

White oak! Doing its thang - you can tell so much by this particular one - this probably was an open woodland or a savanna (see the massive branches that were aborted). Love love love

Meetings take up most of my work day but scheduling those meetings takes up ANY👏REMAINING 👏TIME

A car with a masked immigration agent inside was seen cicrling a Home Depot / Sam's Club lot near 31st and Cicero in Cicero, IL, around 6:31 a.m. Sighting corroborated by local rapid response.

ICE is snatching people across Chicagoland again today.

As a Chicagoan, I feel good about how our governor and our mayor have handled things, but that doesn't change the reality of the moment—and this is a very ugly, very challenging moment.

RIP free speech

Is this the time to start packing up

Chicago public art

It will be the gov, ppl will know what's up. We have been though this before