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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.
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Volunteers spent Wednesday helping plant native plant species at Midco Prairie, a project designed to bring prairie, wetland and woodland habitats into downtown Lawrence.
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Community members are invited to assist with a prairie restoration workday at the Midco Prairie in downtown Lawrence.
You might see Cope’s treefrog perched on the outside of your window after dark, waiting for a bug drawn by your house lights to become a meal. You might also hear its call, which will be fading in hotter, drier days.
Kansans must eradicate an invasive type of honeysuckle and four other plants from their land after the state Department of Agriculture added them to the noxious weed list.
This is a male Widow skimmer, so named because the black markings of both sexes of the dragonfly are suggestive of funeral garb. The males pick off insects in midair and the dragonfly nymphs eat mosquito larvae.
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Haskell is welcoming the Lawrence community to join a restoration workday in the greenhouse gardens Tuesday evening.
Daisy fleabane is a common wildflower found across the state and is not seen as a particularly nice one. But tell that to the bees, butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, moths and more who collect its nectar, eat its leaves, lay their eggs and otherwise call it home.
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Lawrence’s environmental advisory board members hope to draw a crowd next month as they decide which sustainability recommendations to put before the city commission.
