Pollinators
Hummingbirds are Energy Ninjas, Day and Night
Pollinator Series: Wednesday, April 27: 7pm – 8:15pm Registration Link Join Anusha Shankar, a Rose Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and a National Geographic Explorer and Young Leader who has been studying hummingbirds and their amazing adaptations. Hummingbirds live fast. They have among the highest metabolic rates of all vertebrates, and must […]
Native Plants and the Pollinators They Attract
Zoom Link , United StatesNative Plants and the Pollinators they Attract Thursday, May 19: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free 🐛 ---> Register Here! Pollinators have evolved with native plants, and most pollinators feed on specific plant species. Hummingbirds tend to favor long, tubular flowers, while short-tongued bees prefer more open-faced flowers. Learn how you can attract and support a maximum diversity […]
NH Butterfly Monitoring Network: How you can make important contributions
Zoom Link , United StatesNH Butterfly Monitoring Network: How you can make important contributions. Friday, June 2: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link We are looking for curious and observant people to help us with a new initiative, the NH Butterfly Monitoring Network! There are over 100 species of butterflies in the state and we need help collecting data on […]
Buds & Blooms: Beginner Botany
McLane Center 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, United StatesBeginner Botany is our first Buds & Blooms program. From the air we breathe to the clothes we wear, our relationship with plants far exceeds consumption. Let’s investigate the many ways we interact with our botanical buddies while exploring the McLane Center's Pollinator Garden. We'll learn how it is that plants create their own food […]
Native Plant Sale
McLane Center 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, United StatesJoin us for the McLane Center Native Plant Sale. Bagley Pond Perennials will be at the center with a wide selection of native plants and shrubs for purchase. Bagley Pond is a native perennial farm that follows organic practices. Their goal is to provide home gardeners with pollinator safe, native plants and shrubs to support […]
iNaturalist Training for the June BioBlitz
Zoom Link , United StatesLearn how to use iNaturalist in preparation for our first Pollinator BioBlitz at the NH Audubon McLane Center! Thursday, June 16: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link A BioBlitz is a community science effort where volunteers help find and record data on as many different species within a designated location and time period. New Hampshire Audubon […]
The Secret Lives of Wild Bees
Zoom Link , United StatesThe Secret Life of Wild Bees Thursday, June 23: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link Nick Dorian is an ecologist, an educator, and a naturalist. He is a PhD student at Tufts University where he studies the population ecology of cellophane bees and runs the Tufts Pollinator Initiative, an urban pollinator conservation and community outreach group. […]
BioBlitz at the McLane Center Pollinator Habitat
McLane Center 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, United StatesSaturday, June 25th from 9:30am-2:30pm Join us for a BioBlitz in the New Hampshire Audubon McLane Center pollinator habitat! We are looking to engage others to help us learn more about all that is living in our pollinator habitat. A BioBlitz is a community science effort where volunteers help find and record data on as […]
Buds & Blooms: Pollination – Rescheduled from July 16 to Aug 18
McLane Center 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, United StatesThis session has been rescheduled from its original date of July 16 to the new date of August 18, 2022. Entomophilous. Entemo-what? Derived from the Greek word “éntomon,” meaning insect, entomophilous pollination refers to plants that require insects for their pollination needs. Let's wander around the McLane Center's gardens as we search for our fluttery, […]
Buds & Blooms: Bee-Friending Our Native Pollinators
McLane Center 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, United StatesDiscover the unique and specialized native insects that play a critical role in both ecosystems and agriculture. They may be small, but they are mighty, and they come in more patterns than stripes alone! Let’s peruse the garden in search of the diverse array of invertebrates frequenting our native flowers and see how many we […]
Native Plant Sale
Massabesic Center 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United StatesJoin us for the Massabesic Center Native Plant Sale! Bagley Pond Perennials will be at the center with a wide selection of native plants and shrubs for purchase. Bagley Pond is a native perennial farm that follows organic practices. Their goal is to provide home gardeners with pollinator safe, native plants and shrubs to support […]
Buds & Blooms: The Magic of Monarch Migration
Massabesic Center 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United StatesHow can one, with paper wings, withstand the challenges of a 3,000-mile journey? At this time of year, it’s not just the birds preparing to migrate south! The monarch butterflies here in NH are about to flutter their way down to the forests of northern Mexico. Let’s imagine we are monarch butterflies as we discover […]