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  • Mixtures of Milkweed Cardenolides Protect Monarch Butterflies against Parasites

    September 7, 2024September 9, 2024

    Mixtures of Milkweed Cardenolides Protect Monarch Butterflies against Parasites is the title of a paper shared by a friend who is rearing monarchs in …

  • Dune Buckwheat with ESB butterfly
    Fauna

    Top 20 Plants Supporting Butterflies and Moths Near You

    July 29, 2024November 9, 2024

    The Butterfly Net is an app to help you find top plants used by butterflies and moths in your exact neighborhood.  I used Lomita, CA as my location an…

  • El Segundo Blue video from SBPC

    June 29, 2024June 24, 2024

    Last season during the El Segundo Blue butterfly walks, one of the wonderful South Bay Parkland Conservancy volunteers who is also a photographer and …

  • Friends of Peck Park Canyon Nature Walks – 4th Saturdays in 2024

    April 3, 2024April 4, 2024
  • CROS: California Roadkill Observation System

    May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
    Although an odd topic for CNPS, there are certainly flora-fauna tie-ins that makes this an adjacent, though offbeat, area of interest.  In short, “information about where wildlife vehicle collisions occur,…
  • Krystle Hickman taking pictures of bees - photo from the LA Times
    Fauna

    May 01, 2023: Krystle Hickman on Native Bee Conservation and Photography

    April 23, 2023May 5, 2023

    Join us by Zoom on May 1 at 7:30 (7:15 for chat) when Krystle Hickman discusses native bee conservation and photography. Expect stunning and rare phot…

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    Sea Cliff Buckwheat Missing in Action

    April 4, 2023April 21, 2023

    On March 14, Megan Roy, volunteer manager at the Point Vicente Native Plant Garden, reported a missing Sea cliff buckwheat.  The plant was mature and …

  • Brent Morgan 2023-03-18 Santa Monica Mountains BBT near Ray Miller trailhead
    Fauna

    Hummingbird moth and Prickly Phlox

    March 27, 2023February 24, 2025

    Here’s a recent photo that really caught some nectaring action. This article in SF Gate seems to have good background information on these moths. The …

  • Chris Cosma: Lepidoptera Conservation with The Butterfly Net – Oct 3, 2022

    September 27, 2022May 10, 2023

    Our October meeting is on the 3rd of October. The speaker is Chris Cosma, a Ph.D Candidate at the University of California, Riverside. Chris has been …

  • Monthly Native Plants & Bird Walk Starting

    June 28, 2022September 13, 2022

    The plant and bird walk on June 30 is a pilot run, but the plan is to host them monthly through the end of summer in Long Beach.

    July 21, 2022 will…

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