Pollinator Garden Plants: Catclaw Acacia Senegalia greggii (formerly Acacia greggii) is native to the southwestern united states and northern Mexico at elevations below 4500′. It’s a large thorny shrub or small tree growing to 20′ tall. Flowers are fragrant. Full to part sun, low water and hardy to 0 degrees F. Flowering Season: J F M A M J JContinue reading “Pollinator Garden Plants: Catclaw Acacia”
Glamorous Moths #7 – Pine Carpenterworm Givira lotta, the Pine Carpenterworm moth. I have a soft spot for large, fuzzy moths. This one is a member of the Carpenter and Leopard moths. From Wikipedia: The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 knownContinue reading “Glamorous Moths #7 – Pine Carpenterworm”
Community Forests Prepare for Climate Change – From the EOS Blog “Trees benefit residents in communities around the world by mitigating pollution and other environmental impacts of contemporary society and by broadly improving livability in cities and towns. However, many locales are feeling the heat as urban, or community, forests—defined by the U.S. Forest Service as “the aggregate of all public and private vegetation and green spaceContinue reading “Community Forests Prepare for Climate Change – From the EOS Blog”
