So, there’s a wildflower in Ohio named for its “resemblance to a pair of upside-down pantaloons.” See it and more in “The Splendors of Spring—Part 2” (lots of great photos) by CFAES’ Carrie Brown on Buckeye Yard & Garden onLine. (Photo: Said pantaloon-resembling wildflower, Getty Images.)
The Scarlet, Gray, and Green Fair on Saturday, April 23, will hold tours of the CFAES Wooster Campus’s new United Titanium Bug Zoo. You can get a sneak peek of what you can see on the tour in the video above. Or check out these photos and story in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine.
Tours will be offered, too, of the new building that the zoo is in, the Wooster Campus Science Building, which is LEED-certified. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
Discover Ohio’s spring ephemerals—the native spring wildflowers hopefully not steamrolled by the invasive lesser celandine of our previous post—in a new Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine article by CFAES’ Carrie Brown. (Photo: Virginia springbeauty, Getty Images.)
“It’s a beautiful sight unless you consider that the magic carpet rolls over native spring wildflowers, particularly spring ephemerals”—trillium, mayapple, Virginia springbeauty, and others. CFAES’ Joe Boggs writes about the non-native, highly invasive lesser celandine plant (flowering in yellow in the photo above) in his article today on Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine. (Photo: John M. Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Bugwood.org.)
Great Lakes Echo; March 9, 2022; featuring Eugene Braig, OSU Extension and CFAES School of Environment and Natural Resources
Using GPS tags attached to the birds, associate professor Chris Tonra and graduate student Aaron Skinner, both of CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources, helped discover some surprising facts about the long migrations that eastern whip-poor-wills make from their Midwestern (including Ohio) breeding grounds.
(Photo: Eastern whip-poor-will, Getty Images.)
The next monthly program by CFAES’ Environmental Professionals Network (EPN), “Coyotes, Coffee, and Carnivores” is Tuesday, Feb. 15, online or in person. The theme is “exploring human-animal coexistence in a crowded world.” The esteemed speaker lineup includes Stan Gehrt, CFAES’ own world-renowned expert on urban wildlife.
Get details about the EPN program, including how to register.
Cleveland.com, Jan. 30; featuring Tory Gabriel, fisheries educator, Ohio Sea Grant
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct. 27; projects include researchers from Ohio State
Food Navigator; Oct. 26; Kristin Mercer, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, is one of the study’s co-authors
Youngstown Vindicator, Aug. 23; featuring Dave Shetlar, CFAES Department of Entomology
USA Today, Aug. 10; featuring Aaron Wilson, OSU Extension
Bio Market Insights, Aug. 9; featuring Ajay Shah, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering