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By Renae Blum Jessica Gieseke is a bumble bee-catching machine. She picks her way through a clump of goldenrod buzzing with flies and soldier beetles and spots her target. In one swift, graceful movement, Gieseke slides a vial along a stem, tips a bumble bee inside and caps the vial. […]
Every now and then, I get a familiar call: “I found a huge patch of four-leaf clovers in a wetland. What’s going on?”
I respond: “Those are water-clover leaves, not those of the lucky four-leaf clover. So cancel the trip to Vegas.”
Sandhill cranes are arriving on the Platte River earlier and staying longer. With more birds packed into a smaller area, biologists are left to wonder what the future holds.
The process of goose banding allows wildlife researchers to monitor changes in survival, abundance and movement over time.
Since 1992, Chip Taylor and his team at the University of Kansas have endeavored to find answers to the mysteries of monarch migration via a monarch tagging program.
Aquatic Habitat Program projects completed in recent years are now providing excellent fishing at lakes around Nebraska.