Found across the U.S., these native wasps start to appear in mid- to late July through August in Nebraska.
Tag: Nature
Why You Should Love Wasps!
Wasps are amazing. No, seriously, they’re startlingly cool.
Nebraska’s Monkey-flowers
The roundleaf monkey-flower’s favorite haunts include the slow shallows of spring-fed Sandhills streams and the sandy-bottomed pools of spring-branch canyon streams flowing into the central Niobrara River.
Nebraska’s Crayfish
With their jointed legs and protective exoskeleton, crayfish are a unique part of Nebraska’s aquatic ecosystems.
My City Sanctuary
Marissa Jensen of Omaha spends a year discovering a prairie of native grasses, flowers anear her home in the city.
Discovering Slime Molds
The slime molds’ DNA suggests they are ancient creatures, one to two billion years old, slithering over the Earth’s barren rock surface at a time when the only other land creatures were bacteria.