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Category Archives: Insects

15 Trees for a Wildlife-Friendly, Edible Landsape

Posted on August 18, 2014 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comOctober 23, 2014
Trees for a wildlife-friendly, edible landscape

Want to transform your backyard to a food producing, wildlife-friendly garden? Start by choosing from these 15 trees for a wildlife-friendly, edible landscape. Wildlife value and edible parts of each tree are described.

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Posted in Backyard Farming, Birds, Gardening, Insects, Mammals, Plants, Wildlife | Tagged coexisting with wildlife, edible backyard, edible landscape, gardening, gardening for wildlife, how to create a wildlife garden, how to create a wildlife habitat, how to create an edible landscape, landscaping for wildlife, native plants, wildlife garden, wildlife landscape, wildlife-friendly edible garden

Giant Silk Moths and their Decline

Posted on August 9, 2014 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comAugust 11, 2014
Giant Silk Moths and their Decline

An introduction to our largest and showiest moths: Why some are declining and how you can help, are discussed in Giant Silk Moths and their Decline. This was inspired by our recent sighting of an imperial moth, a species which has been declining for decades here in the northeast.

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Posted in Insects, Wildlife | Tagged actias luna, antheraea polyphemus, biodiversity, compsilura concinnata, eacles imperialis, extinction crisis, giant silk moths, gypsy moth, imperial moth, lepidoptera, luna moth, moth decline, polyphemus moth, saturniid moths, saturniidae, wildlife

Gardening for Pollinators: 8 Tips

Posted on July 5, 2014 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comJuly 28, 2014
Gardening for pollinators: 8 tips

Pollinators are key species in all ecosystems, and you can help reverse their decline by gardening for pollinators with these 8 tips.

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Posted in Backyard Farming, Gardening, Insects, Plants, Wildlife | Tagged bee garden, creating a pollinator garden, how gardeners can help pollinators, how to attract pollinators, how to garden for pollinators, how to help pollinators, pollinator friendly garden, pollinator garden

Woolly oak galls, Callirhytis lanata

Posted on October 10, 2013 by janet@ouroneacrefarm.comNovember 13, 2013

This must be a banner year in Massachusetts for woolly oak galls produced by the wasp Callirhytis lanata, because we naturalists-but-not-bug-experts who’ve never noticed them in past years, have been finding these quarter-inch, buff colored pompoms scattered all over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Insects, Wildlife | Tagged Callirhytis lanata, oak gall, Polystepha pilulae, woolly oak gall

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