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Photo of the Week – December 30, 2010
I photographed this juvenile wolf spider on an 18 degree (Fahrenheit) day in the middle of the winter. At the time, I was walking along a frozen creek, admiring the hoar frost on the surface and...
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An Early Attempt to Evaluate Prairie Restoration Success by Looking at Insect...
Back in February, I wrote a post that laid out some ideas about how to measure success when using prairie restoration (reconstruction) to stitch fragmented remnant prairies back together. One of the...
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A Slide Show of Nebraska Nature Photos
Caterpillar on false gromwell. Griffith Prairie - north of Aurora, Nebraska. This fall, I was honored to be the banquet speaker at the first annual conference of the Nebraska Natural Legacy Project...
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Photo of the Week – April 6, 2012
Here’s something I know almost nothing about: Slugs. I found this slug in one of our prairies yesterday morning, and managed to get a few decent photos of it. Slugs are largely considered to be pests...
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First Impressions From My Insect Week
Well, as promised, here are some early impressions from the time I spent looking around our Platte River Prairies with Mike Arduser (bees) and James Trager (ants) last week. I’ll know a lot more after...
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Photo of the Week – August 31, 2012
It seems like a good time to be a crab spider. The drought has greatly reduced the number of flowers blooming in prairies, forcing pollinators to visit fewer flowers in greater numbers. Previously,...
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Insects After a Hard Freeze
In last week’s Photo of the Week post, I mentioned that I’d spent part of a morning photographing white fluffy seeds in autumn prairie. (It’s not a bad life, all things considered.) As I walked that...
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Patches of Fire and Habitat
It’s been a difficult year for conducting prescribed fires so far – the wind seems to be blowing even harder and more consistently than in recent memory. And that’s saying something, living in the...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog- Marvels in the Mud
This post was written by Evan Barrientos, one of our Hubbard Fellows. Evan is a talented writer and photographer and I encourage you to check out his personal blog. If you would like to see more of...
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Pill Bug Mystery
Last November, we conducted a prescribed burn at a 3-year old restored prairie. Two weeks later, I was surprised to be able to photograph green regrowth in that area. Last week, I revisited the same...
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Pollinators and Insect Conservation Field Day – August 5
Here are some more details on our upcoming field day at the Platte River Prairies on Saturday August 5. The day will run from 9 am to 2 pm and will focus on pollinators and other invertebrates. We’ll...
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Photo of the Week – April 6, 2018
Predators play key roles in ecosystems. When they are absent or rare, impacts ripple through landscapes, often in unexpected ways. We all rely on the presence and effectiveness of predators, but...
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