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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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More on how a native garden left to winter over will enhance a wildlife garden. From birds and butterflies and caterpillars, to assassin bugs, praying mantises, lace wings, wolf spiders, minute pirate bugs, damsel bugs, ground beetles, ladybugs and more...can live through the winter in your garden if you leave them undisturbed. A bird family paradise when looking for nesting.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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If you find this stuff interesting to read here is a link that shows correlation between good winter habitat and reproductive success in spring. To see if it was the individual bird or the habitat quality at work, American redstarts were removed from quality habitat territory and redstarts from lesser quality sites allowed to take over. These birds with more and better food and cover were able to increase health and weight in the better territory so as to be ready to leave for breeding grounds a bit earlier than those birds in other lesser quality winter grounds. This in turn favored the reproductive success in the breeding grounds.
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A Bee's Best Friend
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Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/284880
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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| Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Reproductive Success of Migratory Birds in Habitat Sources and Sinks - Donovan - 1995 - Conservation Biology - Wiley Online Library
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Great Horned Owl
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northeastern MA
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Thanks, Gloria. So much information; sweet! I can say, also, that I scored high on my self delivered test: I am a messy gardener!!! Glad I'm doing something right!!! ![]()
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Salamander
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Olympia, WA
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I'm a messy gardener, too -- I like those leaves and dried flowers! And I enjoy watching the birds digging through the leaves. I'm glad to see it's a good thing.
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