Ever wonder why we call them flower “beds”? Maybe because bees and other insects often hunker down for the evening by tucking into the flowers for a good night’s rest. Candy Roach of San Antonio documented the phenomenon of “sleeping … Read More
Congratulations, San Antonio! We rallied in December to hit and surpass our goal of 300 new pollinator habitats for San Antonio’s 300th birthday, finishing the year with 325 gardens pledged. The year-long initiative, launched here at the Texas Butterfly Ranch … Read More
A community wide pollinator habitat initiative launched in April of this year is only 55 gardens away from reaching its goal of 300 pollinator habitats for San Antonio’s 300th birthday. The grass-roots effort began as a way to satisfy an … Read More
A crowd of thousands at San Antonio’s third annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival pushed the city’s community wide pollinator gardening initiative into its home stretch this week. Our friends at MP Studio worked the October 21 Festival and collected … Read More
The 300for300 Pollinator Garden Initiative, our community wide effort to plant 300 new pollinator gardens for San Antonio’s Tricentennial year reached, 150 sign-ups this week. That means we’re halfway to our goal of 300, with about three weeks to our … Read More
Great job, San Antonio! Our 300for300 pollinator habitat initiative continues to pick up steam, with a dozen habitats pledged in the last two weeks. Check out the beautiful photos in this post of Candy Roach’s newly installed pollinator habitat in … Read More
A State investigation is underway at a bat cave near Mason, Texas, after the spraying of pesticides by the neighboring exotic game ranch wafted onto the nature preserve, threatening harm to visitors and the 1.6 million Mexican free-tailed bats that visit there each … Read More
SAN ANTONIO — The Alamo City celebrates its Tricentennial birthday this year and the Texas Butterfly Ranch is comemmorating the occasion by working with our favorite community collaborators to plant 300 pollinator habitats in honor of San Antonio’s 300th birthday. … Read More
Pollinators and politics center stage at 2017 Texas Pollinator Pollinator PowWow in Nacogdoches … Read More
What is the future of pollinator advocacy under a Trump administration?… Read More