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pollinators
Solitary Wasps
Most people have an aversion to wasps, and understandably so, given their painful sting. But did you know that most of our wasp species do not sting humans and that…
Air Pollution is Hurting Our Pollinators
In Canada a shocking 86 per cent of Canadians live in regions with unhealthy levels of air pollution. These levels are due to natural sources of air pollution like forest…
Will This Year See a Drop? Waiting for the Annual Monarch Butterfly Count
Now that we are into the year of 2023, we anxiously await the annual count of the overwintering Monarch Butterfly’s population in Mexico. Historically, the number of hectares of winter…
Restoration in Action: Broadcast Seeding to Restore Pollinator Meadow Habitat
In my last blog post, I talked about how fall is the best time to seed pollinator meadow habitat projects. In this blog post, I want to introduce you to…
It’s a Wild Life: Thankful for Canadian Wildlife Supporters
Everyone who works at the Canadian Wildlife Federation has at least one profound memory of how wildlife changed us. This is likely true for almost every Canadian. As Canadians, we…
Picking Favourites on the Prairies
Nydia Chowdhury is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. Working for the Canadian Wildlife Federation alongside Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada was a…
Stranger in a Strange Land
Daniel Vladimir Nava Toxqui is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. As a wildlife biologist, your office is pretty much anywhere you…
Turn Out the Lights
As a crowd gathered in Edison’s Menlo Park, New Jersey to usher in the New Year, they witnessed a historic change. Artificial light. And since 1879, we’ve been on a…
Why Did Health Canada Change Their Mind About Neonics?
As soils warm across the country, Canadian food producers are preparing to plant their crops. But in a spring that seems like any other, one thing about this season should…
The Connection Between Prairie Pollinators and Climate Change
Often in nature, timing is everything. From Monarch Butterflies migrating to Canada from Mexico just as milkweed is ripe to bison calves being born just as the plains turn green,…
