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August 28, 2025
Veterans Find Healing in the Beehives at Cleveland Botanical Garden
Our fascination with bees is as old as time itself. The Paleolithic cave art in Spain shows honey hunters perched on cliff faces 10,000 years ago. In ancient Egypt, the...
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July 17, 2024
Save the Hymenopterans (Bees, Wasps and more!)
Hymenopterans are the group of insects including bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies. “Sawfly” is the name applied to all but one group within the hymenopterans, making this group paraphyletic –...
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June 15, 2023
June is Pollinator Month: Here’s why we need pollinators!
Why do we care about pollinators? Pollinators are important creatures in natural ecosystems and our daily life because they provide vital services to wild plants and our crops. Pollinators carry and...
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January 4, 2023
Season Extending Plants for Pollinators
Some of the best pollinator gardens include just a few key features that make them work well. Food, water, shelter and host plants. One way to have the most food...
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August 24, 2022
Milkweed: Beneficial and Beautiful
Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) are beneficial host plants for the Monarch butterflies. The plant provides the adult female Monarch with a place to lay her eggs. Once those eggs hatch the...
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August 24, 2022
Lip Sumac-ing Good: Wonderful, and Edible Sumac
Peeking up above the Echinacea, Phlox, and turtlehead in the Holden Arboretum’s, Arlene and Arthur S. Holden Jr. Butterfly Garden are the bright red, cone-shape infructescence of the staghorn sumac....
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May 17, 2022
Blue false indigo & Clouded Sulphur
Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis) is a flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae). This plant grows upright and makes an excellent border plant for your pollinator garden. It’s deep blue...
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May 17, 2022
Prairie ironweed & American Lady
Prairie ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata) is a staple meadow plant, growing tall and blooming in late summer and fall. It is self-seeding as seeds fall to the ground at the end of...
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May 17, 2022
Dog violet & Orange Fritillary
Dog violet (Viola labradorica) is a low-growing perennial that blooms with vibrant purple flowers in the spring. If it weren’t for these showy flowers, many would likely walk right by this...
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