Author: Anita Westervelt
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Anita’s Blog — CNC – BOLO SGCN
This year, it is exceptionally important to join the City Nature Challenge in order to document how our most peculiar winter affected our habitat.
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Annual City Nature Challenge April 30 to May 3
Published in McAllen Monitor, April 3, 2021 — Local participation encouraged for Signs of Life entries in annual worldwide City Nature Challenge
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Think butterflies when looking to replace garden plants
Published in McAllen Monitor, March 20, 2021 — Native plants surpass the test of time — and freezing temps –check out some hearty native plants . . . .
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Anita’s Blog — Excited About Bugs
Do you look forward to specific insects each spring? Which plants attract the most bugs in your yard? Readers want to know . . . .
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Anita’s Blog — Signs of Life After Big Freeze
Looking for signs of life on your favorite native plants is the new norm after February’s Big Freeze . . . .
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The Ubiquitous Great-tailed Grackle
There are reportedly 10 million Great-tailed Grackles, ranging from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia, through Mexico and the U.S. and into southern Canada. In winter, many of the northern ones come south, swelling the Valley’s flocks to gargantuan proportions to upwards of half a million birds. They frequent sugarcane and corn fields and land freshly plowed. A species…