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We heard this question many times over the course of the day at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 100th birthday – “Bee Day” – celebration on June 12. Ed Toth, Liz Johnson, and I manned a Great Pollinator Project table where a small box of bees from the American Museum of Natural History’s collection attracted a lot [...] To continue reading this post, click on the post title On Wednesday, Ed Toth, co-founder and partner in the Great Pollinator Project, and I found our way – after some wrong turns – down a service road into the northeast corner of Van Cortlandt Park where one of the project’s Bee Watcher gardens is located. Ed is Director of the Greenbelt Native Plant Center on [...] To continue reading this post, click on the post title Not sure if it is because of the wet spring and summer but I have been seeing a lot of flies on flowers recently. Here are a few flies commonly observed in the NYC area: Flies on flowers. Clockwise from top left: Syrphid on strawberry, Toxomerus, muscid fly on Dianthus, green bottle fly Although these are [...] To continue reading this post, click on the post title Bombus fervidus, Tremont section of the Bronx (Photo by Kevin Matteson) Bumble bees are considered ‘charismatic’ enough to receive common names. Thus, the above pictured Bombus fervidus has the honor of also being known as the Yellow Bumble Bee. You also may wonder why we use ‘bumble bee’ with a space, as opposed to ‘bumblebee’ as all [...] To continue reading this post, click on the post title |
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