Tag: City Nature Challenge
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Annual City Nature Challenge April 30 to May 3
— A citizen science program that encourages local participation Story and photos by Anita Westervelt, Texas Master Naturalist What’s London rocket, hairy panther ant, Texas nightshade, Brochymena arborea and pepperweed got to do with it? Throw in some spotted lady beetles, evening primrose and sand phacelia and you’ve got spring along the colorful Valley…
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Anita’s Blog — Unusual Winter Blooms
January was just coming away from its third cold front where some Valley night temperatures reached the danger zone– those dastardly frost and freeze degrees — yet the days, even though cold, gray and windy, witnessed flights of butterflies, the sight of which caused me to wonder what they were finding for nourishment. After weeks…