Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 13, 2014
This past weekend, WildResearch held a Butterfly Monitoring Workshop at the UBC Botanical Garden. The workshop began with an indoor classroom session where participants learned to identify, catch, handle, and monitor butterflies. They also learned the protocols for contributing data to the BC Butterfly Atlas, a citizen science project. I sat in, and gave a […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 3, 2011
A trip last week to Washington’s Olympic National Park afforded me the opportunity to revisit some favourite species, including today’s elephanthead lousewort. These plants were growing on one of the infrequently-accessible wet turf slopes that can be found along the upper reaches of Hurricane Ridge Road.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 24, 2010
Continuing the “biodiversity and sports” series today, snowshoes are thought to be one of the earliest and most important innovations in transportation technology, with evidence of a kind of primitive “ski shoe” being used in Asia around 6000 BCE. Composed of slabs of wood lashed onto the bottoms of feet, this early technology is also […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 1, 2009
Given the delayed spring we’ve had locally, Aphyllon purpureum ought to be in bloom this weekend at the Tom McCall Preserve near Rowena, Oregon (where this photograph was taken two years and a few days ago). I’ve scanned the ground for these low growers (to 15cm tall) the past two weekends in local areas, but […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 10, 2006
The first time I encountered jacaranda was in Syndey, Australia a few years ago, where it was being used as a street tree. It is actually a native of subtropical South America, but its beauty contributes to it being widely cultivated around the world. Unfortunately, in some areas (Queensland in Australia, South Africa), it does […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 30, 2005
Known simply as lantana, or shrub verbena, Lantana camara is a species whose native distribution is not easy to determine; I’ve looked through ten different web sites for native distribution and came up with nothing definitive.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on December 16, 2005
I mentioned last week that you could possibly find a rhododendron in bloom every day of the year in UBC Botanical Garden. I think (and others will surely correct me if I’m wrong) that the only genus of plants that you are guaranteed to find in flower every day of the year is Rosmarinus or […]
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