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Green lynx female on spurred butterfly pea vine (Centrosema virginianum).

Late Summer 2025 Snapshots From Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden

Cooperative Extension's Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden was created in late 2008 at Chatham Mills in Pittsboro to provide forage from early spring to late fall for pollinators such as native…

Three hollow dried plant stems with papery sheaths, close-up view

Provide Nesting Habitat for Native Bees Through Plant Stems in Your Garden

By the time springtime rolls around many folks are itching to get back into their gardens and start cleaning up in preparation for a new season of blooms. Hopefully last year’s perennials have been…

Bumble bee on Carolina lupine.

View Recording of CCP Bumble Bee Conservation Webinar

Chatham Conservation Partnership (CCP) conducted a webinar on Bumble Bee Conservation on April 18, 2024, and we had a great turnout of about 115 folks attend the live webinar. If you missed the live…

Solitary bee emerging from sandy burrow mound beside small yellow flower

Ground-Nesting Bees Should Be Appreciated, Not Feared!

Every year, from mid-March through mid-April, I get calls from folks worried about all the bees hovering over their lawns. They want to know how they can kill them because they are afraid they will…

Wildflower garden with clusters of red and yellow blooms and tall pale-green flower spikes

Celebrating 15 Years in Pollinator Paradise!

This year (2023) marks the 15 year anniversary of North Carolina Cooperative Extension's Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden at Chatham Mills in Pittsboro! I created the garden in 2008 with…

Passionflower bee collecting pollen on yellow passionflower. 

Critter Spotlight: Passionflower Bee

For 15 years I have enjoyed observing the many pollinators that forage on the native passionflowers in my Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden. North Carolina is home to two native passionflower…

Bee clinging to a small pale green flower, orange pollen visible on its hind leg

Pollinator Plant Spotlight: Late Figwort

Even though I have been managing my Pollinator Paradise Garden for 15 years, it continues to teach me every year. The garden features over 225 unique species of plants (85% of them native to North…

participants practice netting bumble bees

Community Scientists Trained to Participate in Bumble Bee Atlas Project

In mid-June about 16 pollinator enthusiasts gathered at N.C. Cooperative Extension's Pollinator Paradise Garden in Pittsboro to receive training as community scientists for the Southeast Bumble Bee…

Close up of bumble bee nest.

Emergency Bumble Bee Nest Relocation!

Last weekend I got a text from Jennifer Howard, beekeeper and cut flower grower at Buck Naked Farm in Moncure. They were having well issues on the farm and while troubleshooting the problem had…

Dried wildflower seed heads with white fluff against a blurred pink background

Fall Chores in the Pollinator Garden: Leave the Leaves and Save the Stems!

After planting, weeding, and watering through the spring and summer, some gardeners look forward to fall as a period of rest as plants senesce at the end of the season. Other gardeners are eager to…