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Tag Archives: Garden Pollinator
Garden Ecology Lab News, January 2018
It’s been a busy month in the Garden Ecology Lab. Gail’s manuscript on bees in home and community gardens has been published in Acta Hort. Briefly, the results of this literature review are that: 213 species of bee have been collected … Continue reading
Posted in garden ecology, Lab News, Native Plants, urban soils
Tagged Garden Pollinator, garden soils, Native Plants, Portland, research, soil sampling, soil test, urban soils
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Garden Bees, 2017
All bees have been pinned, labelled, and data-based. Now we’re (and when I say ‘we’re’, I’m mostly referring to Lucas and Isabella) are going through the painstaking process of photographing all specimens: head on, from the top, and from each … Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, garden ecology, science
Tagged Garden Bee, garden ecology, Garden Pollinator, Portland
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Pollinator of the Week: California Tortoiseshell Butterfly
This entry is from Isabella Messer, an undergraduate horticulture student at Oregon State University. It highlights a common Oregon pollinator. Despite the misleading name, we have unfortunately not discovered a new cross species between California butterflies and tortoiseshell … Continue reading
Research Update: Studying Willamette Valley’s Native Plants
The post below comes from Aaron Anderson, a M.S. student in the OSU Department of Horticulture, and a member of the Garden Ecology Lab. ************************************* This past summer, we conducted the first field season of a study screening native plants … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden Pollinator, Native Plants, research
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Pollinator of the Week: Gray Hairstreak
This post was written by Isabella Messer, an undergraduate working in the Garden Ecology Lab. The Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus(Hübner, 1818)) is a common butterfly in the US. Its habitat spans most of the country with the exception of some … Continue reading
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Pollinator of the Week: Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee
This entry is from Isabella Messer an undergraduate horticulture major at Oregon State University. It highlights one of the most common pollinators that we see in Portland area gardens. Out of the twenty four different garden sites we visit, each month … Continue reading
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