Outdoors Unscripted has announced the winners of grants that encourage adventurer-artists to explore the open spaces of Douglas County and create artwork in response.
Sometimes summer bird feeders also feed young raccoons who like the high protein found in black sunflower seeds. The heat in coming days moves most mammals to become more nocturnal.
Kansas is on course for its smallest winter wheat harvest since the 1950s because of drought and freezes. A July report shows the state’s farmers are expected to produce almost half the number of bushels they did at the same time last year.
This widow skipper dragonfly, perched on a twig, seems to have had a close call with a predator, as is evidenced by the hole in the upper right wing.
This milkweed tussock moth caterpillar is protected from predators in the same way as monarch butterflies: the cardiac glycosides present in the milkweed sap makes the predator sick.
A new type of wheat dotting Kansas fields has a special use: making pasta. Wheat acres have continuously declined in Kansas. The noodle-focused wheat variety could change that.
Jacob Rice / Lawrence Times
The resounding sentiment from public commenters and board members at Thursday’s sustainability advisory board meeting was that Lawrence needs to be thinking about the environment at every possible level.
Wulfe Wulfemeyer/Lawrence Times
Members of Lawrence’s sustainability advisory board are compiling environmental policy proposals to share with city commissioners, and they’re asking for community members to put in their two cents.
July 18 – 25 is National Moth Week, and this pawpaw webworm moth was found in all of its dotted-wing glory under a porch light over the weekend.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Volunteers spent Wednesday helping plant native plant species at Midco Prairie, a project designed to bring prairie, wetland and woodland habitats into downtown Lawrence.
