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SUMMARY:Pollinator Paradise Partners!
DESCRIPTION:Conserving Carolina is creating a pollinator garden along the scenic Oklawaha Greenway—and we need your green thumbs! If you enjoy gardening and want to help create a beautiful\, welcoming space for pollinators and people alike\, come join us! \nThis will be the first of our weekly garden workdays\, and this time we’ll be focusing on mulching and weeding to get the space ready for native plants to thrive.  The pollinators are already enjoying the many native plants in the garden! \nOur vision is to grow more than just flowers—we’re building a vibrant\, family-friendly oasis that serves as a hands-on educational space. It will highlight the importance of native plants and local pollinators\, inspiring both kids and adults to connect with nature. Our plan is to utilize the gardens for community outreach programs\, workshops\, and guided tours to raise awareness about the importance of pollinators and native plant species. In one half of the large garden bed\, we plan to create an interactive garden for families with children. On future workdays we may work on the hardscape by installing paths\, borders\, and structures for climbing plants\, and other things for kids to enjoy.  We welcome your ideas and creativity! \nWhether you’re a seasoned gardener or just want to get your hands dirty for a good cause\, your help makes a difference. Come be part of something that benefits the whole community—humans\, bees\, butterflies\, and beyond! \nWe will meet at the North Main access to the Greenway (a gravel parking lot to the left if coming from Hwy 25) just before the bridge over Mud Creek) which will be marked by a Conserving Carolina sign. \nCome when you can\, and leave when you need to. \nFor more information or to sign-up\, contact Mary Miller @mary@conservingcarolina.org.
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LOCATION:Oklawaha Greenway\, Hendersonville\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Landrum Library Speaker Series: The Impact of Bacteria on Interactions Between Plants and Pollinators - CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Date: July 15\, 2025 \nTime: 6:00 p.m. \nLocation: Landrum Library \nSpeaker: Dr. Grace Freundlich\, Assistant Professor at Furman University \nPlant-pollinator interactions are of vital importance to ecosystem functioning and a viable human civilization. To date\, we’ve extensively studied how pollinators select for certain flowering plants and how these preferences shape floral morphology. For example\, pollinating flies preferentially select flowers with yellow or white flowers\, while birds visit bright red flowers with deep corollas\, and bees prefer to visit purple-colored flowers (Reverté et al. 2016). While pollinators select for various traits in flowers\, we have failed to fully identify how floral microbes influence plant-pollinator interactions. \nWithin the past 20 years\, we’ve documented the presence of various floral bacteria and yeasts that reside on petals\, in nectar\, and in pollen and how these communities differ across certain regions and flower species (Vannette 2020) (Burgess and Schaeffer 2022). Additionally\, we’ve noted how certain groups of microbes can influence pollinator behavior when they are present in flowers (Schaeffer et al. 2017; Schaeffer et al. 2019). However\, we have not\, to Dr. Freundlich’s knowledge\, taken the time to identify specific physiological and morphological features that may impact how these communities are shaped inside of these flowers. In this presentation\, Dr. Freundlich will discuss the work that she and her students have done addressing this question with a range of techniques\, including imaging the surface of floral structures and quantifying differences in visitation rates among common pollinator friendly plants in the Upstate. \nDr. Freundlich has always been interested in plant defense and the strategies they utilize. As an undergraduate at Dickinson College\, she studied how carbon dioxide enrichment impacted seagrass defenses. Soon after graduation\, she work at the Ohio State University to assess which genes conferred resistance in soybean against soybean cyst nematodes. After this experience\, she completed her Ph.D. studying how plant-plant communication impacts plant defense strategies in agricultural settings and soon moved to Utah State University for her postdoctoral position. In this post\, she investigated how herbivore-induced shifts in floral chemistry alter floral microbe communities and pollinator visitation. Additionally\, Dr. Freundlich received a National Science Foundation award to study how floral bacteria and yeast alter floral trait evolution in the model plant Brassica rapa. As an assistant professor at Furman\, she is excited to work with students determining how plant chemistry in flowers and leaves influences plant-species interactions. \n \nThe Landrum Library Speaker Series programs are made possible thanks to our partnership with the Spartanburg County Public Libraries. \nContact Pam Torlina\, pam@conservingcarolina.org\, with questions or for more information.
URL:https://conservingcarolina.org/event/landrum-library-speaker-series-the-impact-of-bacteria-on-interactions-between-plants-and-pollinators/
LOCATION:Landrum Library\, 111 Asbury Dr\, Landrum\, SC\, 29356\, United States
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SUMMARY:Landrum Library Speaker Series: An Introduction to Backyard Moths of the Carolinas
DESCRIPTION:Luna Moth by Sharon Mammoser \nDate: July 15\, 2025 \nTime: 6:00 p.m. \nLocation: Landrum Library \nSpeaker: David Ahrenholz \nNative giant silkworm and hawk moths are our largest North American insects\, but they go largely un-noticed. Dr. Ahrenholz presents backyard photographs from his Landrum home to illustrate the lives of these beautiful but rather secretive creatures. \nDr. Ahrenholz began his interest in butterflies and moths as a child in Iowa. He taught himself photography because family and friends were not interested in dead insect specimens. After medical school he continued his passion for nature photography\, photographing butterflies across the US and tropical South America. His photographs captured new species and led to an appointment as a Research Associate in the Entomology Department at the Smithsonian. He has pursued a 25-year project with the museum to document the butterflies of Ecuador in photographs and by collecting specimens. After retiring from his surgical career at the University of Minnesota\, he moved with his wife to their horse farm in the Landrum area where he enjoys equestrian foxhunting and sharing images from his butterfly garden. \n \nThe Landrum Library Speaker Series programs are made possible thanks to our partnership with the Spartanburg County Public Libraries. \nContact Pam Torlina\, pam@conservingcarolina.org\, with questions or for more information.
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