Some tiny sweat bees are a beautiful metallic green. But why are they green?

It has been a busy year. Career changes, moving, adapting. It all results in less available time to meander through the native gardens...

Summer has its own pace. It is frantic, it is fleeting. Insects seem cognizant of the short window for gathering resources and...

We all love trees. They provide shade, they reduce erosion, they support many insects and birds and mammals. They have been the subject...

Now that it is spring, it is the perfect time to keep an eye out for some of the strange creatures that can occupy our urban habitats. If...

While walking along our brick horseshoe path through the prairie garden, I heard a rustling in the grass. A squirrel searching for last...

This site is mostly dedicated to habitat within our cities and the animals that utilize it. However, Nebraska's sandhill crane migration...

How good are you at identifying woody plants by their winter buds? The odds are pretty good that you are better than I am. How much do...

A photographic exploration of the unique geometries of winter Echinacea purpurea.

A lot of creative writing has gone into emphasizing the native habitat garden's winter state. The life cycles of many species have...

You might be wrong about wetlands. To you, wetlands might be pits of stagnant water covered in a pea-green film. You imagine the...

As fall weather pushes the final blooming flowers into senescence, we can now reflect on the previous season. Native habitat gardens are...

The pumpkin is an interesting plant embedded into North American culture. For thousands of years before arrival of Europeans, people in...

I have always been a fan of nature documentaries. One particularly captivating scene is that of the savanna watering hole. Here, predator...

We often spend a lot of our time and advocacy on replacing turf grass with native plants. However, lawns are a significant cultural...

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) is the most recognizable bee in North America. The species is the branding of numerous food items and is...

Skippers might be the most emblematic butterflies of suburbia. They flutter out of the grass to escape lawnmower blades. They bounce...