Posts tagged with “Arb Talk” (All posts)
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Trout Lilies Abloom
25 April 2024Spring wildflowers have come to the Arb! As the invasive Siberian squill begins to fade away, the season starts for a native wildflower that blankets the forest floor: the white…
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A Beautiful Invader
18 April 2024With the warm weather recently, many have been out walking around the Arb. You may have noticed that it is the height of the blooming season for a certain purple…
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The Cottonwoods of Minnesota
11 April 2024Not all trees can handle living next to the Cannon River this time of year. Trees that thrive in Minnesota’s floodplains must survive when the river bursts its banks each spring, dousing them in deep water.
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Sneaky Scale Insects
11 April 2024Have you ever noticed weird bumps on a plant? They might actually be scale insects!
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The Arboretum’s Home-Grown Coffee
4 April 2024You might not notice a Kentucky coffeetree if it weren’t for its distinctive pods, which can be seen dangling from branches or picked up from the ground around it.
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The Deadly Designs of the Elm Bark Beetle
4 March 2024Walking through the Arboretum earlier this month, student naturalists came across weird designs etched in the wood of a fallen tree. Was this a practical joke on curious students, or a particularly artistic woodpecker? As we learned, these were actually the galleries of bark beetles.
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No Ice? What Does This Mean For Wildlife?
4 March 2024Winter 2024 is on track to be the warmest winter on record for much of Minnesota, and with unprecedented warmth comes anomalies to the environment around us, one of which…
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Squirrels!
20 February 2024The morning after the Midwinter Ball, campus was blanketed with silence. As I sluggishly trudged to the libe to chip away at my mountain of homework, something stopped me in my tracks.
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The Cannon River
13 February 2024What lies at the heart of the Arb? Is it the plentiful prairies? The lovely wooded paths for wandering? The Hill of Three Oaks? I would argue for The Cannon…
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The American Tree Sparrow
28 January 2024Many people think of winter as the time when birds are gone from Minnesota, having migrated south during the last autumn. However, some birds have an opposite trend to this, like the American Tree Sparrow.
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