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The wild world of Milkweed plants is populated by aphids who suck the plant's life, beetles who suck the aphids dry, ant lion babies who will eat each other - and sometimes the Monarch butterflies whose caterpillars gotta eat Milkweed or starve.

         APHIDS!

Native gardening specialist Besa Schweitzer guides this conversational tour through the realm of Milkweeds - and the bugs to bug them! Her Wildflower Garden Planner is a book everyone can use to welcome Nature's Wild Child plants into your place. 

Congratulations, Besa, on this summer's recognition of your work from the native plant advocate botanists of Missouri Native Plant Society! Honor well deserved. Earthworms listeners: read Besa's take on this topic in The Healthy Planet July 2023 edition.

Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer and Green colleague in Sierra Club - and to KDHX production ace, Jon Valley

 

 

Family members of the 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan say the government is lying to them.

Yandy Díaz, Brandon Lowe and Randy Arozarena hit RBI singles in the eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2.

From Leader Publications:  The Jefferson County Health Department will seek construction bids soon for its new Hillsboro office, according to Jim Huber, principal and design coordinator for Archimages of Kirkwood. During the July 27 Health Department Board of Trustees meeting, Huber said drawings for the 19,957-square-foot, one-story building are complete and the company is ready […]

The St. Charles Police Department said Hannah Hesterberg was last seen on Monday on West Clay Street. No further information regarding her description was provided.

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Ghanshyam (Sam) Patel and Jay Patel, doing business as Midwest Hotel Construction, LLC, of Sunset Hills, had proposed constructing and operating a 4-story, 80-unit Hampton Inn Hotel, with an indoor pool, on 1.9 acres along Technology Drive next to the existing Extra Space Storage building, and just west of the Persimmon […]

Well, I see that Ohioans have overwhelmingly rejected the right-wing attempt to change referendums from simple majority vote to needing 60% to pass. This means that November's abortion rights referendum will be decided by a normal majority vote. So why the huge rejection? Is it a harbinger of the abortion vote? Or is it just ...continue reading "Ohio rejects right-wing attempt to rig referendums"

Strength. Revolution. Survival. In the 1980s, New York City’s East Village was a place of struggle and angst for impoverished artists living through the AIDS epidemic; however, they persevered through

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U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at St. Louis battery materials plant groundbreaking: "Up to this point, globally, China has had a market on this."

The Clay County prosecutor is telling anyone on the Missouri River to alert authorities if they spot a barrel after a woman was found dead.

A Boeing official told the county council that sites other than St. Louis have been considered for the aerospace manufacturer's proposed $1.8 billion expansion project, which would include construction of multiple buildings totaling one million square feet.

The two organizations have collaborated NON STNDRD, a new exhibition space located on the NBAC campus.

City Winery St. Louis presents Mike Phillips Live in concert, Tuesday, August 8th at 7:30 PM.   World renowned saxophonist Mike Phillips is known as one of the most electrifying instrumentalists

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Stop in every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30 for Trivia Night with Mack and Mace at Steve’s Hot Dogs. Stop at the table to sign up. Come back every week,

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EAST ALTON - East Alton is known as a community that cares about its children. Another prime example occurred on Saturday with East Alton’s Annual Back To School event. The village took 200 children for the special event to provide the following: Haircut, three sets of new clothing, hygiene products, backpacks with grade-appropriate supplies, lunch, tennis shoes and socks, underwear garments, coats and jackets and laundry soap. “We have many organizations and businesses that came together to help supply and support the needs for these children, co-chair Robin Carlton said with the other co-chair Suzette Cranmer. “We are supported and helped by the Village of East Alton Mayor Darren Carlton and the village trustees. This was our fifth year of organizing this free event for our community.” “It takes an average of 80 volunteers, 30 of those are personal shoppers made up of a lot of East Alton teachers. We are blessed and have a great rapport with the Eas

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Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount Pictures film, which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery.   The play begins on a dark

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