Watch out, out there! Crab Spider Using a Balsam Root to Do Its Work (Beats chasing around. Note: the bees will not agree.)
Pollination is Dangerous
Coyote’s Lesson
When spooked, run into the open, scan the distance … … and then, rather than following the open grass, step behind a sagebrush and disappear. After that, you dominate the side of […]
Please, Please, Please Don’t Plant That Lavender!
If you plant that lavender, the crab spiders will have nowhere to go, and they are the wolves of this ecosystem. Removing the top predator from a chain, in this case a […]
It is the Most Beautiful Day
My seven year-old Transparent apple tree and her sister branch of Benvoulin apples are blooming gloriously today. We have all been getting ready for this for a year now, and are very […]
A Life of Hazard in the Fields of the Sun
A bee… A Tiny and Courageous Bee A crab spider blending in… Crab Spider in the Central Balsam Root Bloom The hunt is on.
Beautiful Grassland Hunters
Sometimes grass can be your wings.
Western Tanagers Are Really Flowers NOT Birds
See, here’s how it goes. Yellow: Crab Spider Up to No Good Red… Mushroom Shrooming See how this works? Let’s practice some more. Yellow … Tiger Lily Red… Beetle on Milkweed Red […]
10 More New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan (And an Extra One for Fun)
Currently water is collected in the Okanagan by three methods. The first is to turn high country lakes and streams into reservoirs, which are then piped down into the valleys, to provide […]
The Creative Economy and a Living Earth
Here’s how the earth came to be alive up on the hill. Spider Making the Most of Invasive Knapweed Here’s how the earth came to be dying up the hill. An investment […]
Surely This is the Life!
Billions are spent to send men to the moon. Now the talk is of Mars. Telescopes are trained on space to find distant planets, orbiting distant stars, that are capable of sustaining […]
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