by Pollinator Team | Mar 26, 2020 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Rusty Patched Bumblebee
Depending on where you live in Canada, the snow may already be melting, revealing early signs of spring. If you’re an avid gardener, you might already be thinking about what plants you want to add to your property this year. While it’s always nice to...
by Pollinator Team | Aug 20, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative
By Genevieve Rowe, Lead Biologist, Native Pollinator Initiative Sometimes as biologists we get stuck at a desk or in a lab, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to get a few weeks out in the field searching for the animals we are most fond of, and if we’re...
by Pollinator Team | Jun 5, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Uncategorized
As Jessica, our Conservation Programs Director, so eloquently outlined in her piece titled, The Science of the Seasons, spring has been slowly creeping across Ontario this year, but thanks to some of our heartier more reliable plant species, our bumble bee queens have...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | May 24, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Taylor's Checkerspot
Our field staff on Vancouver Island just sent word that we have the first Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly eggs of the season! The cluster of small yellow eggs were laid by a wild-caught female on plantain plants in our temporary field enclosures....
by Pollinator Team | Feb 1, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Species at Risk, Yellow Banded Bumblebee
Hayley, Wildlife Preservation Canada’s Ontario Program Biologist for our Native Pollinator Initiative, recently visited a friend in London, England, this past summer, and was inspired by a book she purchased called “Nature’s Wonder Workers”....
by Pollinator Team | Jan 18, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Rusty Patched Bumblebee, Species at Risk, Yellow Banded Bumblebee
Pollinators aid in the successful reproduction of nearly 75% of flowering plants, plants whose capacity to reproduce is either entirely dependent on this animal-assisted service, or whose productivity is substantially increased when pollinator communities are present....
