Supporting Biodiversity Conservation

Our Mission

Supporting biodiversity

We collaborate in research, education, and community engagement projects that aim to support biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, and sustainable agriculture.

 
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Our research

Plant & Insect Ecology

We investigate ecological interactions among plants, insects, and microbes. A central theme of this work is to examine how we as humans alter our environment and the effects such changes have on species interactions.

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Berry time! We tried something new last year - adding blackberries & raspberries to our pollinator garden. Berry crops provide a great floral resource for pollinators & cane berries also provide nest sites for cavity nesting bees. It’
🐝🧡Bees love butterfly weed🐝🧡 Not sure why we call this bee-utiful plant a weed! Asclepias tuberous is a pollinator favorite & nice plant for gardens. It’s native throughout many areas in North America, especially common in prairies and
Peak bloom time 💕🧡💛💚💜!!! Our pollinator garden @oaklandu is loving all this rain. We saw lots of bees buzzing around this morning even with the overcast skies 🐝 #plantsforpollinators #supportbiodiversity #savethebees #pollinatorgarden #gardeni
Blackberry season is here 😍 Thank you bees 🐝🐝🐝
🧡 Dorcas copper (Lycaena dorcas) 🧡 Saw a handful of these beautiful little butterflies flying around a prairie fen habitat in Springfield Township yesterday. Larval host plants include shrubby cinquefoil and weedy Rumex and Polygonum species. #b
Celebrate the last day of pollinator week at the Oudolf Garden in Detroit Sunday from 11-1. Join us as we participate in the Pollinator Week Bioblitz on iNaturalist (link in bio). Pictured here: a Banded Hairstreak Butterfly (Satyrium calanus) necta
🧡Bronze Copper Butterfly🧡 Host plants of this beautiful butterfly (Lycaena hyllus) include species in the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae) such as the weedy non-native curly dock and other non-native Rumex species. It’s a native butterfly, bu
We’ll be celebrating Pollinator Week at the Oudolf Garden in Detroit Sunday from 11-1. Come join us for pollinator walks in the garden and to participate in the final day of the Pollinator Week Bioblitz. See link in bio to join this @inaturalis
It’s Pollinator Week! 🦋🐝 Want to get involved in citizen science to help monitor pollinators in North America? Join the Pollinator Week iNaturalist event hosted by the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign’s Urban Pollinator Tas
💜💛💚 Southern blue flag iris & sensitive fern inhabiting the @OaklandU Biological Preserve. This summer we’re restoring a 10 acre prairie fen habitat, in collaboration with the Tiegs Lab. In April, we conducted a prescribed burn & n
Meet the Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) — such a cool butterfly! This species is thriving at a few field sites we’re surveying for the Michigan Butterfly Network. We’ve seen 60-100 individuals this week! Unfortunately,
Thank you bees 🐝 for 🍓🫐🍒🍏 🍐🥭🍉🥝🍑🥑🥒🌶🫑🍆🍅🌻🌼🌸🌺 Happy World Bee Day! Native bees are important pollinators for strawberries & other crops especially in small to mid-sized farms, like the urban & suburban gardens & farms whe
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Conserve Biodiversity

We work together with other community members, students, educators, and researchers to provide a better understanding of how our environment is changing and the effect these changes have on the ecology of plant-insect-microbe interactions.