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Eastern Skunk Cabbage
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Eastern Skunk Cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, is one of the earliest plants to flower. It's an important sources of early pollen for pollinators, mainly carrion flies, beet...
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Episode 36 Camponotus castaneus Over the Winter
mrilovetheants
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My young colony of Camponotus castaneus needed a new test tube so I shot this video of them.
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The Amazing Goldenrod
mrilovetheants
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Solidago altissima, Tall Goldenrod, is among the tallest and latest blooming perennials. It spreads somewhat aggressively by root suckers, but I've found they're easy enoug...
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Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle
mrilovetheants
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This is the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly. No butterflies were harmed during the making of this video.
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Buckeye Butterfly.
mrilovetheants
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Junonia coenia, Common Buckeye, is a butterfly that can't survive cold winters. Even the caterpillars die after the first frost. Naturally it's up to members from subtropic...
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Liatris microcephala Buzzing
mrilovetheants
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Honeybees working one of the smaller species of Liatris.
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Backyard Meadow Tour
mrilovetheants
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This is a quick tour of my meadow themed gardens. This is the first year for a lot of these plants, so mostly the autumn blooming species bloomed really well. Next year all...
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Ant Chat Episode 35 My Formica pergandei Colony
mrilovetheants
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Here I discuss my colony of Formica pergandei, a slave making species.
Last August I caught an, F. pergandei queen. She was place in a test tube setup and given cocoons an...
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Ant Chat Episode 34 Prenolepis imparis Experiment
mrilovetheants
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Here I took 4 young colonies of Prenolepis imparis, Winter Ants, and allowed them to share the same foraging area. I've had success in the past getting colonies to combine ...
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A Monarch Meadow and Hummingbird Garden
mrilovetheants
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Monarch Butterflies are migratory, and now that it's August they're becoming more of a common sight out in the garden. In most of North American their only host plants are ...
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