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OUTDOORS: Celebrate pollinators
Bees, butterflies and bugs are some of the important pollinators that help generate wildflower displays, produce crops and sustain native plants.
They can’t do their part without the plants, and the Texas Pollinator Bio Blitz is helping bring attention to the habitat needs of pollinators across the state.
This is the height of the monarch butterfly migration season.
The Texas Pollinator Bio Blitz is a statewide effort to identify as many pollinators as possible from Oct. 7-16.
Search for pollinators such as bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, birds and other animals, and post about them on Instagram and iNaturalist.
“This Pollinator Bio Blitz is going to be a tremendous help to us because monarchs and other pollinators are in trouble,” said Nancy Herron, director of outreach and education for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Herron said the monarch is losing habitat and important larval and adult food resources. She reported the population has declined by nearly 80 percent the past 20 years.
The only tools needed are a camera or Smartphone, and access to the Internet. Register for free on the Texas Pollinator Bio Blitz page on the TPWD website.
Registrants will be emailed daily challenges. Read more in The Bowie News.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. (Logo provided by the TPWD, used with permission)
The Garden Guy surfed the web and stumbled across a photo you most likely have never seen. It featured three Proven Winners National Plants of the Year in a wonderful combination.
The flowers were the Safari Dusk Jamesbrittenia or South African phlox which is the ‘Annual of the Year.’ The combo also featured Supertunia Hoopla Vivid Orchid the ‘Petunia of the Year’ and Heart to Heart Chinook the ‘Caladium of the Year.’
Read the full story from The Garden Guy in your Thursday Bowie News.
Food is supposed to bring people together.
It sits at the center of our holidays, church potlucks, birthday parties, first dates, family reunions and late-night kitchen conversations. In Texas especially, I feel like feeding people is one of the purest forms of love we know. We celebrate with casseroles, comfort with pies, and gather around smoked meats and shared desserts.
Food is hospitality. Food is belonging.
But for some people, food is also calculation.
Before the appetizers even arrive, some of us are already scanning ingredients, evaluating risk, rehearsing questions, and trying to determine whether asking those questions is about to make everyone at the table uncomfortable.
Read the full feature in On The Table in your Thursday Bowie News.
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