Wild Ones Chapter: Habitat Gardening in Central New York

Habitat Gardening in CNY
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Our past newsletters
Planting thistle; A world without pollinators? Hummingbirds return (5/20/2016)
Tallamy/Darke TV show; Making messy look good; Butterfly releases; Symphony of the Soil (4/30/2016)
Bird hats as fashion; Native plant restoration; NY wildflower monitoring project (4/16/2016)
Nature makes us more caring; Two CNY citizen science projects; Monarchs - good news and bad news; Why woodpeckers don't get headaches (4/3/2016)
Flip the default; Vernal ponds; What is a poop stick (3/16/2016)
Plants for dry, shady areas; Get ready for nesting season; Hometown Habitat; Thoreau a citizen scientist (3/1/2016)
How are monarchs doing; Think better with nature; How plants work; Dead forests and living memories (2/20/2016)
eBird; Humans need nature, too; Earthworms and climate (2/4/2016)
Learn about bird anatomy; Great Backyard Bird Count; The hemlock wooly adelgid (1/21/2016)
Resolve to be a hummingbird; Resolve to plant trees; Resolve to be a citizen scientist (1/3/2016)
Gifts for habitat gardeners; The Canadian hemlock; Learn about birds at the Bird Academy (12/5/2015)
Nine reasons to be thankful for plants; Thankful for turkey vultures, too; Even for soil microbes (11/14/2015)
Dirt! The Movie; Monarchs and Patricia; Habitat connectivity (10/31/2015)
Where do butterflies overwinter?; Leave leaves alone!; Time for Project FeederWatch; Milkweed for monarchs (10/12/2015)
Ask your doctor; Migration season; Milkweed for monarchs (10/6/2015)
More than a plant sale; glyphosate in the news (9/18/2015)
Three leaves or five?; Plant sale (9/1/2015)
Lots of worm... or none? What is a weed? Help in designing your landscape; Thoughts on pesticides (8/15/2015)
The migration nears; Keep Wild Ones strong (8/2/2015)
Bees and climate; A habitat garden is good for your health Monarch SOS App; Ellen Goodman on Lawns (7/21/2015)
Listening: How do birds sing two notes at once; Listening: Noise pollution; Sara Stein on Noise (7/8/2015)
Happy pollinator week!; Ants and plants; Merlin Bird ID; Good news for bats (6/18/2015)
Humans are disappearing; Rethinking peat moss; BEE one in a million (6/9/2015)
Good news for pollinators; Amazing bird videos; Monarch look-alikes; Eric Grissell: News flash (5/27/2015)
Monarch updates; Is your yard an eco-trap? (5/6/2015)
Too many slugs? Not enough toads! (4/19/2015)
NEWFS State of the Plants report; The monarchs have left Mexico; Providing nesting materials for birds; Buds are bursting (4/5/2015)
Advice to birds on surviving winter (3/1/2015)
Tallamy: Beauty is not enough; Milkweed and citizen science for monarchs (2/11/2015)
Curl up with a good book; Five surprises about monarchs; Hemlock hikes (1/4/2015)
2015: Year of Soil viewing of Symphony of the Soil; Joy of giving your time for citizen science projects; (12/4/2014)
Give thanks for pollinators; Harvestmen; Doug Tallamy on "Creating Networks for Life" (11/21/2014)
Winter wren proves it; Being in nature is good for people; Monarchs arrive in Mexico; Project FeederWatch time (11/2/2014)
Spiders are beneficial; Sara Stein on Composting; The Dirt on Dirt (10/19/2014)
Biodiversity of dead plants; Collecting milkweed seeds; Children's outdoor time (10/7/2014)
Bag the bags and leave the leaves; Mowing for monarchs (9/23/2014)
Sara Stein: Helping or hindering?; Top berry shrubs for birds (8/31/2014)
Black walnut trees in the landscape; About birds: ID, windows, cats (8/17/2014)
Dragonflies at home; Homes for solitary bees; Darke&Tallamy: Virtue or vice? (8/4/2014)
That hummer could be an old friend!; Don't treat your soil like dirt; Sara Stein: The look of a wild garden (7/23/2014)
Hometown Habitat; Which plants are most productive? List of butterflies found in Onondaga County; Forests without trees? (7/7/2014)
National Pollinator Week; Report monarch sightings; Shopping Guide (6/21/2014)
Show Me, Help Me tours; Darke/Tallamy book highlights (6/8/2014)
Mystery photo; Outlook for monarchs; New books (6/1/2014)
Deer resistant NATIVE plants; hummingbirds and native plants; The Seneca Nation's native plant policy; Sara Stein on lawns and meadows (5/18/2014)
Native Plant Shopping Guide; More on bumble bees; More on neonicotinoids (4/30/2014)
Surprising things about spring emphemerals; invasive earthworms; Pussy willows; When will they arrive? (4/22/2014)
Can you spot Oprah's error? Bluebells: a bit of heaven; Learn more about feather biology; Dryer lint as nesting materials for birds? (4/7/2014)
Perennial sunflowers; GMOs and the monarch butterfly; Which is the "real" phragmites; Mistaken identity resource (3/23/2014)
Inspiring example of stewardship; Annual sunflowers; Keeping the migration going; Just what are those neonicotinoids? (3/6/2014)
Words of Wisdom from Doug Tallamy; Monarchs in the news; How do robins overwinter? (2/8/2014)
Staghorn sumac - not a weed!; Great Backyard Bird Count; You and your computer can make a difference (1/20/2014)
Moving for Monarchs; Positive side effects of the cold weather; Slowing down ticks (1/10/2014)
We're thankful for our habitat gardens; For trees; More than roses; The miracle of soil; Birds and other creatures (11/18/2013)
Project FeederWatch; Woodpeckers and Emerald Ash Borer; Journey South for monarchs and birds ... and COFFEE! (11/10/2013)
Resources for teachers and homeschoolers; Leave leaves alone; Pesticides in purchased plants; How burning bush travels; "Its own dead leaves..." (10/23/2013)
Bringing back the American chestnut; American chestnut, Ameican tragedy; The Man Who Planted Trees; Protecting plants from deer (10/6/2013)
Is your yard a source or a sink?; There's that goldenrod myth again!; Which birds are on the move? Native trees: A factoid and a quotation (9/27/2013)
Native plant sale; Planting Noah's Garden; Dogbanes: Close doesn't count!; Goldenrods do NOT cause allergies; Wild for monarchs and for milkweed seeds (8/31/2013)
Weed-suppressing groundcovers; Do you use neonicotinoids?; Monarch miscellany (8/16/2013)
Why so few monarchs? Goldenseal - not just a medicine; Culver's root: a bee favorite (8/1/2013)
Guess what this is!; Featured: Little bluestem; Pesticides and biodiversity; Pollinaria (7/15/2013)
We've got milkweeds, BUT; Bees don't see the point of hybrid flowers; Featured: New Jersey tea; Learn how "to bird" (7/3/2013)
Pollinator week: native plants, nesting sites; Emerald Ash Borer quarantine (6/16/2013)
Guess what the image is; Baltimore orioles, What's inside that butterfly pupa?; Lots of projects to make your summer more interesting (5/25/2013)
Featured plant: Common bluestar; Use vegetation to save energy; Free videos on monarchs, dirt; Words of wisdom: The pollinator refugees by Eric Grissell (5/9/2013)
Habitat gardens benefit people, too; Monarch experts explain decline in population; Hummingbirds @ Home; Learn more about nature the high-tech way (4/21/2013)
Insect hotels / Garden art; Buzz on Bees: honeybees, metals & bumblebees, Buzz Kill; Other insects: Dragonflies, Beauty of Pollination; Long-horned beetle, Mosquito management (4/7/2013)
How does a conspicuously red bird thrive? Returning monarch population low; Monarch action in the Adirondacks; Monarch resources for teachers (3/18/2013)
Importance of species; Coffee and birds; Climate and butterflies; Cover the ground with natives; Cherry Blossom Blitz (3/11/2013)
The end of darkness? Our yards at night; Native plants' native berries; Why we plant trees (1932) (2/21/2013)
Goofs in the headlines (Norway maple and monarch butterfly); Cats and wildlife; Bird Phenology Project (2/3/2013)
CNY prepares for Emerald Ash Borer; How monarchs use milkweed; Good for the soul; Recipe for insect outbreaks (1/21/2013)
Designing neighborhoods for people and wildlife; Bold and bashful birds; Thrwarting house sparrows; One cubic foot of biodiversity; Children and pesticides (1/3/2013)
Sara Stein: On Wild Turkeys; Honeybees at the first Thanksgiving; Featured plant: Canada yew; Non-natives in the fall (11/17/2012)
What is a cultivar? Monarch migration progress; Winter finch forecasts; Northeast forests and climate; Bees distinguish between Picasso and Monet; bees and pesticides (11/4/2012)
Dead wood brings new life; Robins on the move; Deciphering coffee labels; Collecting milkweed seeds (10/21/2012)
Northern maidenhair fern; collecting milkweed seeds; Bird fledglings in native trees and shrubs; Project FeederWatch; Merlin; Sara Stein: On paths and lawns (10/8/2012)
Monarchs begin migrating; What's in a monarch chrysalis; Planting milkweed; Goldenrods and allergies? (9/22/2012)
Project Budburst; Why trees matter; Grassland birds; Container gardening video; Natural landscaping videos (9/1/2012)
NYS list of noxious plants; Giant hogweed; Tree vignettes (8/13/2012)
Go Botany; Funny lawn video; Great Bee Count (8/2/2012)
"Robbing the life savings"; Guess what chickadee is doing; Feature: American toad (7/22/2012)
Planting trees by Doug Tallamy; Quiz: Which plant is native?; The advantages of planting small; Featured: Prairie dropseed (7/8/2012)
What worms are native? Featured plant: Flowering raspberry; Cats Indoors! (6/25/2012)
National Pollinator Week; Featured animal: Fireflies; Plants and climate change; Blogs about local plants/animals; (6/10/2012)
Featured: Wild stonecrop; "Homegrown National Park"; Bring Back the Bees pledge and sign; Merlin (5/24/2012)
Butterfly migration; Natives spur children's interest in science; Pesticides at home; Bat houses; On children and nature; YardMap; (5/7/2012)
Update on monarchs; Native Plants for Native Birds; Milkweed species; Dioecious plants (4/23/2012)
Canary:Coal Mine; HGCNY Plant Guide; Monarch population status; Native bees effective pollinators; Pesticides are "'cides" (4/11/2012)
Spring cleanup; An early spring; Geese:resident or migratory?; Preventing bird-window collisions; "We can make a difference" (3/20/2012)
Trees for the future; Sumacs; GBBC results (3/6/2012)
Time for nestboxes; Nutrient runoff; Don Leopold presentation online; Project BudBurst; Save a life (2/20/2012)
Bees, plants waking earlier; American chestnuts, elms; Help birdwatchers with Merlin (2/5/2012)
What butterfly overwinters? Update on honeybees; Great Backyard Bird Count (1/22/2012)
2012: The Year of the Bat; Who's coming to dinner?; Winter reading (1/8/2012)
Hairy or downy?; Oakleaf hydrangea; White-nose Syndrome update; Bigger flocks are smarter flocks; Human causes of bird fatalities; Sara Stein (11/19/2011)
Trees as green infrastructure; Hidden Beauty of Pollination; Benefits of natural landscaping; Project FeederWatch (10/23/2011)
Though brown, still a habitat; Mystery plants; Bee basics resource; Get kids outdoors (10/8/2011)
Using fall leaves; ID that bug; Dinky yellow flags; Fall into Phenology (9/19/2011)
Tired of goose poop?; Fall into Phenology; How do monarchs know when to leave?; Sara Stein on invasive plants (9/2/2011)
Mystery insect; Lawn herbicide killing trees; We are all pioneers by Sara Stein; Permanently hotter summers; Dragonflies (8/20/2011)
Guess the flower; Monarch from egg to butterfly; New web resource for native plants; Jewelweed (8/6/2011)
Guess the flower; Why the monarch chrysalis has a gold necklace; Plant woodies!; Update on weed; Marmorated stinkbug; Dotted horsemint (7/21/2011)
Guess the flower; Children need nature; How hummingbirds really drink; Thoughts on trees (7/10/2011)
What is this caterpillar eating?; Zap the zappers; the BEE Highway Act; A new kind of gardener by Sara Stein (6/25/2011)
Are you robbing your soil? Garden soil by Sara Stein; Featured plant: Honeysuckles; This news stinks! (6/13/2011)
Let's keep cats inside; The concept of pest; National Pollinator Week; Lawn pesticides; Other ferns; Converting your lawn to garden (5/31/2011)
Moss in lawns; Open your garden to pollinator refugees; Butterfly identification; Ostrich fern; State of the Birds 2011 (5/11/2011)
Our state flower, the rose; myths about monarchs; climate-friendly gardening; Project Squirrel; Great Backyard Bird Count results (4/26/2011)
"Wild canaries return"; Featured plant: Bloodroot; Project Budburst; Hanging Out Day; Flora for Fauna garden; Native Plants for Native Birds book (4/6/2011)
Plan for less lawn; Hummers and monarchs beginning journey north; Robins eating wizened-up winterberries; Words of wisdom on Lawns by Michael Pollan (3/20/2011)
Attracting Native Pollinators book; Featured plant: Pawpaw; "Our Habitat Garden" website announced; Reflection by Dr. Niering (2/28/2011)
Monarch update: Videos, Mexican people, temperature; Bee ready to help pollinators; Native Plants for Native Birds book (2/21/2011)
Ten best woody plants and ten best herbaceous plants; Squirrel - solutions?; The Woods in Your Backyard; Use your computer's idle time; Environment and health; (2/8/2011)
Steep drop in bumblebees; Birds and beans coffee; "I own the land" (1/22/2011)
Questioning peat moss; How insects survive the winter; How crossbills use their crossed bills; Will humans be a positive force? (1/3/2011)
Bread is not bird food, Featured plant: Hawthorn; Boost winter happiness and energy; Quotes from the Wild Ones conference; Gifts for the habitat gardener (12/12/2010)
Reflection on raising monarchs; Eastern white pine; YardMap.org; Bird Phenology Project; Project FeederWatch; Updated Invasive Plants resource (11/19/2010)
Pesticides and children; Bittersweet wreaths; Bats in decline; Unexpected fall beauty: wild geranium; Project FeederWatch begins (10/25/2010)
New England asters; How to kill lawn; Topsoil; Reflection: Mary Pipher on Bill McKibben (10/4/2010)
Sunflowers: perennial and annual; Monarchs migrating; Dragonflies migrate, too (9/19/2010)
Green lawns out of fashion; Monarchs migrating to Mexico; The amazing squirrel (9/6/2010)
What is a cultivar; Pollinator gardens in Syracuse, Planting indigenous trees for the future (8/19/2010)
Mind-boggling truth about worms; plants for sunny, wet locations; Why Mow? (7/17/2010)
A Chemical Reaction movie; Trees are cooling!; Plant a yard; Be the change (7/4/2010)
Hummingbird poop; Bee sticks; Fireflies; Red nectar for hummers? (6/21/2010)
Black swallowtail host plants; Smudge art; Common milkweed (6/10/2010)
Got allergies? Serviceberry serves us well; Other butterflies migrate, too; Gardener's Pledge; Good butterfly book (5/18/2010)
Got Shade? (Moist conditions); Lawn alternatives; Vernal ponds (5/4/2010)
Got Shade? (Dry conditions); Lawn pesticides; Monarch update & video; What is a pest? (4/20/2010)
River Birch, When will monarchs and hummingbirds arrive?; Garden design; Frogwatch USA (4/6/2010)
Monarchs; Candle plant, Citizen science; Local habitat garden in national magazine (3/26/2010)
Pussy willows; Hunt for Bees; Cats Inside; Man Who Planted Trees (3/10/2010)
Spicebush; Lawns, Tree islands, Native plant nurseries; Get Wild Child; We Love Birds (2/22/2010)
Butterflies in winter, To pull or not, Composting in winter (2/6/2010)
Two bird conservation activities, how birds survive the winter (1/24/2010)
Cleaning feeders; bird seed; shade coffee; monarchs endangered; While flying on an airplane (1/6/2010)
Gifts for the habitat gardener; Climate change and birds; Monarch update (12/2/2009)
Monarchs in space, winter cover, winter water (11/19/2009)
Stewardship in action; FeederWatching; more on leaves; monarch GPS (11/4/2009)
Nest boxes, leaves, bats, migration, Fruitless Fall (10/19/2009)
Prettier than a burning bush, No Mow grass (10/6/2009)
What's native, what's not; A plant that has fed nothing (9/20/2009)
Monarch migration, Goldenrods, Your garden has a function (9/6/2009)
HGCNY resource, turtlehead, deer solutions, citizen science (8/18/2009)
Sewage, Vacation destination, Japanese beetles, Videos worth watching, Deer solution (7/28/2009)
Ash trees, Turf War, clothes drying (7/9/2009)
Mistaken Identity, healthy yard, children, pollinator resource (6/17/2009)
Longhorned beetle, free plants, deer solution, butterfly host plants (6/2/2009)
All About Birds, fireflies, WO sign, maple trees, Tallamy (5/13/2009)
Deer solution, biodiversity all-stars, dogwood, FrogWatch, pollinators (4/24/2009)
Hummingbirds, milkweed, Less Lawn, garlic mustard (4/13/2009)

Wild Ones Chapter: Habitat Gardening in Central New York
Syracuse
CNY, New York 13219