Gardeners can use kitchen and yard waste as components of a home composting system, reducing the need for bringing in outside additives into your garden. Home compost can also be […]
Bernheim Pollinators: Ruby-throated Hummingbird
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is eastern North America’s sole breeding hummingbird. The petite Ruby-throated Hummingbird has a slender bill that curves slightly downward and their wings are fairly short. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds […]
The Bugs of Bernheim: Click Beetles
Click Beetles are named after the noise they make when grabbed by a predator. This amazing insect will fall onto its back after a confrontation with a predator and play dead. […]
Vanishing Acts: Dawn Redwood
While fleeing the impending Japanese invasion of the Chinese mainland, well-to-do members of the aristocracy were scouting possible safe zones deep in the wild interior of China, when a forester […]
Vanishing Acts: Big-Leaf Mahogany
Big-Leaf Mahogany, Swietenia macrophylla, is native to Central and South America, growing from southern Mexico to north-central Bolivia. The Big-Leaf Mahogany is a massive timber tree which can attain heights of 100 […]
