JR: Do nurseries sell plants that are poisonous to honeybees? - I realize that the honeybee is a non-native insect to North America, but if this info is true, and if the situation negatively impacts honeybees, will it also hurt our native bee population? From a Facebook friend's post: I did not know neonic p... more>>
- Jun 25, 2014 - #todo #nature #environment #business #flower #insect #food #blog_jr

JR: Backyard photos - Jun 21, 2014 - Evening photos with a mostly cloudy sky, so the light was poor. Our little Toledo urban backyard. The soil part. Unfortunately, at least half of the back property consists of the concrete driveway, leading to the detached garage. I guess that was ... more>> 2 min read
- Jun 21, 2014 - #home #toledo #flower #nature #garden #blog_jr

JR: May 3, 2014 notes about our backyard Hermit Thrush - "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra (On Sat, May 3, I wrote this info down in my Field Notes notebook, but I don't think that I recorded it at JotHut.) At 10:47 a.m., I observed a Hermit Thrush foraging on our back lawn, near th... more>> 2 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #bird #home #nature #quote #blog_jr #todo

JR: Less-crowded Toledo area birdwatching spots - The boardwalk at the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area is the best place for up-close viewing of migrating songbirds for numbers and variety. It's easy birdwatching. But the boardwalk can be scrunched-crowded in the first half of May, especially before Noon... more>> 1 min read
- May 10, 2014 - #nature #bird #blog_jr

JR: Lake Erie Wind Turbine Farm Planned for 2017 - Well initially, it may not be a farm. More like a small, rooftop garden. Aug 20, 2013 Cleveland.com story Lake Erie wind developers say they will have the first wind turbine pilot project built by 2017. They will be similar to these offshore wi... more>> 1 min read
- Apr 27, 2014 - #politics #energy #wind #moronism #environment #nature #birds #blog_jr

JR: Another mass littering event - balloon release - Another example of human stupidity. Anti-nature, anti-environment. The Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota plans to release 60,000 balloons. The group claims that the balloon release is eco-friendly. Imbeciles. They are regurgitating propaganda from t... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 28, 2014 - #activism #environment #nature #politics #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Possible answer to what is killing bees - Excerpts from a July 2013 Quartz story Scientists discover whats killing the bees and its worse than you thought As weve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimate... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #bees #insects #nature #chemicals #agriculture #blog_jr

JR: One-man play about Aldo Leopold - From the July 2013 Aldo Leopold Foundation newsletter: Aldo Leopold: A Standard of Change Wednesday, Aug. 7, 6-7 pm, FREE! Come at 5pm for a potluck! Tennessee-based storyteller and writer Jim Pfitzer has created a one-man play to tell the stor... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #art #theatre #nature #blog_jr

JR: Derham Giuliani - Nature Observer - The Magazine - September 12, 2013 - Down from the Mountaintop Years ago I met a man who told me a secret that has stayed evergreen in my mind. Derham Giuliani was a naturalist, a self-taught and the foremost expert on the insects and amphibians... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #nature #insects #blog_jr

JR: Small wind farm being built along Lake Erie in Ottawa County - December 2013 https://www.facebook.com/Kimberly1Kaufman/posts/10202582384628970:0 Camp Perry filed the FONSI. USFWS objected to it. But the turbine above isn't at Camp Perry. We're now dealing with TWO separate projects in the same area. ) C... more>> 5 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #energy #wind #environment #nature #birds #politics #business #moronism

JR: Backyard Tall Coreopsis flowers - 2013 - #todo - [add photos and edit text] Peak bloom for our backyard tall coreops is now (Aug 30, 2013). They've been looking great for the past two weeks, and especially over the past seven days. Huge expansion of the tall coreopsis in our backyard this... more>> 4 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #todo #home #nature #flowers #yard #blog_jr

JR: Some thoughts and notes about Ohio's white-tailed deer population - (My comments from old Toledo Talk threads.) September 2009 comment I assume it means thinning the herd. The growing deer population means deer move into human-populated areas where the deer are unwelcome. Or it's the other way around. The growing... more>> 6 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #nature #hunting #mammals #deer #blog_jr

JR: West Nile Virus Hysteria in Ohio - ( My comment, posted in a June 2013 ToledoTalk.com thread. ) Hopefully, this does not squelch anyone's hysteria about West Nile Virus in Ohio. Ohio's 2010 population : 11,536,504 Ohio Department of Health - West Nile Virus in Ohio YearHuman ... more>> 3 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #health #nature #insects #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle - (Someone spotted a large number of these insects in their yard on Oct 30, 2013 in Toledo. This is my comment at ToledoTalk.com.) Count the spots on the shell, but when you encounter that many, it's probably the Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle, which ... more>> 1 min read
- Nov 05, 2013 - #home #insects #nature #blog_jr

JR: Toledo area swimmers warned about toxic algae in Lake Erie, again - Aug 14, 2013 - Columbus Dispatch - Toxic algae spur warning at Lake Erie beach near Toledo Toxic blue-green algae have resurfaced in the western basin of Lake Erie, prompting Ohio officials to post warnings for swimmers. Water tests at Maumee Bay ... more>> 5 min read
- Oct 31, 2013 - #media #moronism #nature #environment #plants #lakeerie #toledo #blog_jr