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An all-state athlete was not allowed to participate in a regional competition this weekend after she brought her pet goat to school on Friday.

As flowers bloom, bees rev up their pollinating rounds, and a host of Community Scientists are helping local pros explore key bee-health questions: what promotes bee diversity and bee-plant interactions in residential and community gardens? 

              

This is Shutterbee! Backyard bee photography to improve conservation practices. Nina Fogel, Ph.D. co-leads this multi-year project from the Billiken Bee Lab at Saint Louis University with founder and Webster U professor Dr. Nicole Miller-Struttmann, and a team of fellow academics, students and community partners.

                 

Shutterbee is a "standardized survey." Volunteers observe strict protocols - as they strive to photograph bees on the move! Participants commit to taking their smartphone in the same hours on the same day of every month for the same walk around their gardens, and uploading photos of bees they observe into the Shutterbee project on the app iNaturalist. Project leaders identify bees and plants in these photos to evaluate how bees behave in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Next time you're out in your yard, try it. Happily - and essentially - training is provided.

Shutterbee enrollment is filled for 2023, but you can tap into studying bees using the project's vivid resources, pollinator info and bee identification guides.  

Congratulations Nina! Achieving her Doctorate this spring with her study of the patterns of bee diversity in home gardens enrolled in Bring Conservation Home, the native plant program of St. Louis Audubon - and for finding, through her work in 2022, a native bee so rare it had only been documented once before in Missouri.

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to KDHX production potentate, Jon Valley.

Related Earthworms Conversations:
Wires Over Wildlife: power lines as biodiversity connectors (August 2020)

VR Botany: Dr. Kyra Krakos brings the outdoors waaaaay in (April 2020)

Naturalist: graphic novel updates Rockstar Biologist memoir (November 2020

 

Republican Councilman Ernie Trakas of unincorporated South County strongly opposed the bill, which he said served the interest of the fuel and tobacco industry rather than children's health.

North County Inc. has honored IBEW/NECA Electrical Connection Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Sylvester Taylor with a 2023 Leadership Award. Taylor has had a long tenure of service to the North St. Louis County region, including treasurer of the Hazelwood School Board and he has served on the board of the Black Jack Fire […]

Missouri officials terminated the Republican attorney general’s emergency rule that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults.

From KSDK:  Heavy downpours and a thick snowpack in the Western mountains and Upper Midwest have put communities in several states at risk of flooding this spring – or already under water. Flooding is the costliest type of natural disaster in the U.S., responsible for about 90% of the damage from natural disasters each year. […]

The St. Louis Cardinals take on the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium

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"Some blessings come in weird ways and this has been one of them," MindsEye President and CEO Jason Frazier said.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Greene County judge accepted a not-guilty plea by reason of mental disease or defect for a man who paralyzed a Springfield Police Department officer by ramming into him with an SUV. Jon Routh will be committed to the Missouri Department of Mental Health to receive treatment. There were four impact statements [...]

Missouri Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe officially announced Tuesday he will run for governor in 2024.

When Kira Dunn, 53, told her husband of nine years the Circuit Attorney was trying to overturn his murder conviction, Christopher Dunn paused and didn’t say anything for a while.

Aidan Hernandez is Francis Howell Central's Post-Dispatch Scholar Athlete.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The children’s zoo area at the St. Louis Zoo has been reimagined and will be rebuilt as a place where children and families can interact with and be inspired by animals: whether they’re “popping up” next to a prairie dog, splashing on one leg with Chilean flamingoes or climbing through tunnels […]

There have been 160 water main breaks in St. Louis this year and there is usually more than 300 every year.

HDA Architects, one of the nation’s leading architectural, interiors and master planning firms, is nearing completion on one new Love’s Truck Solutions facility in Natalia, TX, while another location in Brigham, UT, is just beginning. Due to the firm’s design acumen that exceeded budget and timeline expectations on Love’s Natalia facility, HDA was selected to […]

Southern Illinois town has emerged as an abortion destination since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.

Welcome to Trivia Nights at the Anheuser-Busch Biergarten, hosted by Trivia Quest.   Every Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m., you can enjoy beer and brainteasers, really putting your knowledge

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A Missouri high school teacher who used a racial slur several times in class is no longer working with the school district.

Construction industry companies looking for secure, easy computer recycling and data destruction services can now do so at no cost, while supporting the work of Construction Forum. Phoenix Solutions and Construction Forum announced that they have entered into a social good marketing partnership. Construction Forum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. The […]