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Pollinator Porn: Beguiling Beauty of Pollination Lusciously Captured by...

The luscious video clip below should help get your week off to a vibrant start. Speaking at a TedTalk in March, renown filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg offered a “bit of nectar” from his movie, “Wings Of...

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Wildly Successful: Pollinator PowWow Draws Hundreds from Texas and Beyond

Icy roads and freezing rain couldn’t stop more than 200 people from making their way to the second annual Pollinator PowWow in Austin this weekend. The all-day gathering of pollinator advocates and...

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Happy Pollinator Week! Unpaid Workers of Our Food Web Deserve Respect and...

Monday kicks off Pollinator Week, a seven-day celebration of those that make two out of every three bites of food we eat possible. Bees are the master pollinators and keep our food affordable. Photo...

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Wildly Successful: Pollinator PowWow Draws Hundreds from Texas and Beyond

Icy roads and freezing rain couldn’t stop more than 200 people from making their way to the second annual Pollinator PowWow in Austin this weekend. The all-day gathering of pollinator advocates and...

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Happy Pollinator Week! Unpaid Workers of Our Food Web Deserve Respect and...

Monday kicks off Pollinator Week, a seven-day celebration of those that make two out of every three bites of food we eat possible. Bees are the master pollinators and keep our food affordable. Photo...

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Beyond Monarch butterflies: pollinators and politics at Texas Pollinator PowWow

The fifth Texas Pollinator PowWow assembled in the piney woods of Nacogdoches, Texas, last weekend. About 75 people made their way to Texas’ oldest city to celebrate pollinators in all their...

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Holy Mezcal, Batman! Bats, booze and beautiful photography at Confluence Park

Mexican free-tailed bats take flight from Bracken Cave in San Antonio. Photo by Phillip Stepanian Did you know that bats pollinate agave, which makes our tequila and mezcal possible? Yep. Our friends...

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So close! San Antonio 300for300 pollinator garden initiative at 245

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...

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San Antonio exceeds goal of 300 pollinator gardens for city’s Tricentennial year

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...

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Is Texas Wild? Conservation Conversations

The Witte Museum invites you to be a part of the 2019 dialogue series, Is Texas Wild?: Conservation Conversations. Dive into the McLean Family Texas Wild Gallery through interactive experiences and...

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Mariposa Monarca: Espíritu del Bosque

This Spanish language Monarch Heroes workshop will will show teachers how to use pollinators and the natural world in the classroom as an interdisciplinary teaching tool, en español. Teachers will...

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Monarchs in the Classroom: Teacher Training Workshop

Join educators from around town for a symposium that will share the collective wisdom of local “pollinator teachers” and their best classroom practices. Hands-on activities, lessons, and sage advice,...

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Butterflies Without Borders: Migration and Immigration in a Changing Climate

Join us for a timely discussion of politics and pollinators and the impact of climate change on migration and immigration. The panel discussion includes monarch butterfly expert Dara Satterfield, a...

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“Flight of the Butterflies” Movie Screening at Yanaguana Gardens

FREE screening of the 2012 documentary “Flight of the Butterflies,” detailing the history of the discovery of the monarch butterfly roosting sites. Great for families, so bring a picnic! Show starts at...

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Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival and Parade

Get your wings on for our fourth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival! It kicks off with a People for Pollinators Parade, monarch butterfly tagging demos all day long, educational booths...

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Please vote! Help us choose San Antonio’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the...

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 2020. The nominees are…Gregg’s...

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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...

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Adding pollinator habitat to resilience gardens can boost yields and relieve...

In response to the coronavirus stay-at-home quarantine, people are moving outside to garden and relieve stress. “Resilience gardens” are taking root across the country–gardens that recall the victory...

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Wildly Successful: Pollinator PowWow Draws Hundreds from Texas and Beyond

Icy roads and freezing rain couldn’t stop more than 200 people from making their way to the second annual Pollinator PowWow in Austin this weekend. The all-day gathering of pollinator advocates and...

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Happy Pollinator Week! Unpaid Workers of Our Food Web Deserve Respect and...

Monday kicks off Pollinator Week, a seven-day celebration of those that make two out of every three bites of food we eat possible. Bees are the master pollinators and keep our food affordable. Photo...

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