Massachusetts Pollinator Network
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Mass Pollinator Network Brown Bag Lunch
OnlineA new program from Mass Pollinator Network: Brown Bag Lunch This drop-in Zoom event will happen on the first Wednesday of each month, beginning February 7, from noon to 1pm. Stop by to meet other pollinator advocates, ask questions of…
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Floodlights and Fireflies: Environmental Sustainability Starts in your Front Yard
OnlineMAPN PRESENTATION: Impacts of Artificial Light on Insects Presenter: Dr. Avalon Owens, Rowland Institute at Harvard Fee: Sign-Up is Free & Open to All Insect populations around the world are declining rapidly. But why? While habitat loss, pesticide use, and…
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Massachusetts Pollinator Network: Municipal Reforestation Bill: What It Is & How You Can Help
OnlineMAPN PRESENTATION: Municipal Reforestation Bill: What It Is & How You Can Help Marilyn Ray Smith, Steven Nutter, David Meshoulam, and Renée Scott, Massachusetts Community Tree Coalition The Massachusetts Pollinator Network hosts free monthly presentations by experts in a wide…
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Mass Pollinator Network Brown Bag Lunch
OnlineThese are monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a home gardener, work…
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Mass Pollinator Network Brown Bag Lunch
OnlineThese are monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a home gardener, work…
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Bee-Friendly Retailer Scorecard
OnlineA Mass Pollinator Network Monthly Presentation A recent report commissioned by Friends of the Earth found that the U.S. food retail sector’s use of pesticides on just four crops could result in $219 billion in financial, climate, and biodiversity risks…
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Mass Pollinator Network Brown Bag Lunch
OnlineThese are monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a home gardener, work…
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MAPN May presentation: Native Herbivores as Control for Non-Native Plants
Online/ZoomJoin the Massachusetts Pollinator Network (MAPN) for their monthly presentation, this month featuring Michael LaScaleia, Putnam Postdoctoral Fellow at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Plant population sizes are generally regulated by herbivores, and much of the diversity of our native…
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Mass Pollinator Network Brown Bag Lunch
OnlineThese are monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a home gardener, work…
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A Secret Neighborhood – Backyard Caterpillars in Your Autumn Landscape
OnlineJoin Massachusetts Pollinator Network for a presentation revealing the caterpillars whose ecosystems we inhabit and our role as neighbors, stewards, and champions of these incredible insects. We live surrounded by a world shaped by insects and few are more charismatic…
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Re:wild Your Campus
OnlineJoin Massachusetts Pollinator Network for an inspiring talk from Mackenzie Feldman, founder and co-director of Re:wild Your Campus, an organization on a mission to make campus grounds more sustainable. This presentation will give you actionable ways to get involved, either…
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Native Plants in an Unlikely Place: Experiments with Tough Plants in a Tough Place
OnlineDawn Burau, from Wild Indigo Gardening, will share her experiences growing native plants in a Somerville, MA yard. Her backyard is covered in pavement and abuts the neighbor’s yard near a chain-link fence. Between the pavement and the fence is…
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Wild Plant Culture: Restoring Native Edible and Medicinal Plant Communities
OnlineA Massachusetts Pollinator Network Presentation Native edible and medicinal plant species can be integrated into gardens and ecological restoration projects to create habitats that support (and include) humans as part of local ecosystems. We'll consider stewarding edible and medicinal plant…
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Mass Pollinator Network Habitat Chat
OnlineThe Massachusetts Pollinator Network hosts monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a…
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Habitat Chat
OnlineThe Massachusetts Pollinator Network hosts monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a…
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Improving Habitat Through Invasives Management
OnlineLearn about our most common invasive plants and how to manage them by prioritizing your goals. Discuss the need to pick your battles and focus on what is achievable. This event is open to the public but is specifically designed…
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What You Choose to Plant Can Help Massachusetts’ Rare Bees . . . Or Not
OnlineNative bees have a 150 million year history with blooming plants. Not unexpectedly it has gotten complex. Many bees are extremely picky about the flowers they gather pollen and nectar from. Explore this pickiness and also point out that many…
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Habitat Chat
OnlineThe Massachusetts Pollinator Network hosts monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a…
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Invasives Management: Our Gardens and the Big Picture
OnlineLearn about our most common invasive plants and how to manage them by prioritizing your goals. Private landowners are essential to help us combat invasives plants and promote a healthy landscape. Kristin O’Brien, Conservation Restriction Manager, joined Sudbury Valley Trustees…
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Habitat Chat
OnlineThe Massachusetts Pollinator Network hosts monthly drop-in, informal meetings for participants from across the state to learn about topics relevant to our work, share projects, ask questions, and exchange knowledge, ideas, and updates. Whether you’re a seasoned community organizer, a…