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Nancy Lawson

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Nancy Lawson is the author of The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife and Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Nature. A nature writer, habitat consultant, popular speaker, and founder of The Humane Gardener, LLC, she pioneers creative wildlife-friendly landscaping methods. Certified as a Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional and master naturalist, Nancy co-chairs Howard County Bee City in Maryland and helped launch a community science project, Monarch Rx, based on discoveries made in her own garden. Nancy's work has been featured in Science Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah magazine, Entomology Today, and Ecological Entomology. Her new ...more

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Solitary ground-nesting bees are so unobtrusive that you’ve likely walked by them—possibly millions of them!—many times without noticing. To help them survive and thrive, we need to nurture their earthen homes. Hopewell Park bees

At a local park managed by the Columbia Association in Howard County, Maryland, we found an enormous aggregation of ground-nesting bees in early April. Many people walk their dogs among thes Read more of this blog post »

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