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Welcome to my blog and website. You’ll find a wide range of topics here, from native plants and ecology, to astrology and psychology, to culture, art, and writing. I’ve started and stopped a series of podcasts and done the same with the blog. Now, I just dabble from time to time and work in my garden in my spare time. More about me.
Katy Morikawa, M. A. Counseling Psychology
Pollinators!
In 2024, for the first year since we built our house in the woods in Floyd, VA, I had native wildflowers blooming in my garden all summer long, and with them came a dazzling array of bees, wasps, butterflies, and other pollinators and beneficial insects. Despite my best efforts, I never positively ID’d any of the bumblebees, except to see at least five distinct species I’d never seen before. Such a dramatic reversal when, in the past, I only ever saw the large common ones (Bombus impatiens) flying low over the ground in early spring but never again all year, despite looking for them. The authoritative bumblebee ID guide by Shelia Cola had none of my bees in it, but I’m sure I don’t even know how to use it properly, it is very complicated! Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States, USDA Forest Service, 2011.
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