Massabesic Gardens Tour

(Photos and story by Anita Fernandez) The word “fly” probably elicits feelings of annoyance in most of us and the word “hornet” may bring up trepidation and fear. After all,

(Photo and story by Anita Fernandez) Imagine this, you walk the loop around the Silk Farm Sanctuary pollinator meadow, seeing dozens of buzzing honeybees, carpenter bees, and bumblebees from small

(Photo and story by Anita Fernandez) Milkweed plants seem synonymous with Monarch Butterflies, but they also support other, often similarly colored, insect species like this one pictured – the Milkweed

(Photo and story by Anita Fernandez) If you’ve seen something flying around the gardens that looks like a queen bumble bee in size but flies like a hummingbird, it’s neither!