University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: June 2021

6/24/21: Spend 15 minutes for Pollinator Week

Happy Pollinator Week! Celebrate today by doing three 5-minute surveys and see what bees you have pollinating flowers near you. Cranberry  surveyors we need you! Flowers are at around 50% and we only have 10 surveys so far! Long way to go to get to our 78 from last year. Garden and vegetable crops are …

6/2/21: Welcome Summer

Are berries blooming? Cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries all make for good crop surveys, as do herbs and peas. Old pithy Rubus stems make nest sites for tunneling bees right in the buffet!