LTER

2024 Bee Lawn Update

By Paige Boyle

This past summer, I completed my first season of MSP LTER Pollinator Habitat data collection. I spent 3 weeks in the Twin Cities with my undergraduate helper from the University of St. Thomas, Eli, identifying plants in home lawns throughout the metro (Figure 1), getting rained on, and talking to homeowners about their yards.
 


Introducing Paige Boyle, Postdoctoral Researcher

a woman crouching in white clover research plots

By Paige Boyle


Is this plant pretty or pretty invasive?

By Ryan Schwab


Long-Term Ecological Research: Bee Lawns in the Twin Cities

By Ryan Schwab and Jillian Turbeville


Looking for lawns!

green residential lawn with several white clover flowers


Long-Term Ecological Research Funding

By Eric Watkins