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...
View ArticleWildly 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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleWildly 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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleBeyond 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...
View ArticleHoly 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...
View ArticleSo 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...
View ArticleSan 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleMariposa 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...
View ArticleMonarchs 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,...
View ArticleButterflies 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleMonarch 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...
View ArticlePlease 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...
View Article2020 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...
View ArticleAdding 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...
View ArticleWildly 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...
View ArticleHappy 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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