Enchanting trek includes monarch butterfly rush hour at Piedra Herrada sanctuary
Favorable weather delivered an enchanting outing at the Piedra Herrada monarch butterfly sanctuary in the state of Mexico this week. The butterfly abundance seemed to sync with predictions by... Read More
2020 Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year: Gregg’s mistflower
The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner is…Gregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal... Read More
Please vote! Help us choose San Antonio’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year
It’s an election year so we thought it appropriate to ask the community to help us decide which native plant should serve as San Antonio’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant for... Read More
Pollen Trackers taps citizen scientists to monitor cedar pollen for allergy relief
Texans suffer mightily each winter as “cedar fever” hits the region. The mass appearance of billions of pollen granules from the Ashe Juniper tree, Juniperus ashei, known locally as... Read More
We did it! San Antonio pollinator habitat initiative hits 510 gardens for 2020
Way to go, pollinator habitat fans! You rallied to help us surpass our goal of 500 habitats pledged by 2020. As of this writing, the San Antonio-based initiative brags... Read More
Almost there! San Antonio closing in on goal of 500 pollinator habitats by 2020
After San Antonio exceeded 300for300, its Tricentennial goal of creating three pollinator habitats for its 300th birthday in 2018, the Alamo City moved the pollinator gardening goalpost: 500 gardens... Read More