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Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2024 |

Seed sales by company

Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: Agriculture, policy

Junonia coenia

By Laurie Allmann | November 1, 2024 |

The uncommon, common Buckeye butterfly

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry

Save the Fireflies

By Gigi Otten | June 1, 2024 |

Your childhood may be gone, but do the fireflies have to go with it?

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Uncategorized

Creating a buzz at Chisago Lakes Middle School

By Patrick Collins | July 8, 2022 |

Students and pollinators flourish in the gardens

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Uncategorized Tagged With: education, kids, pollinators, students

Living with Aquatic Invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 14, 2022 |

Scientists have learned a lot about aquatic invasive species, and experts now say the appearance of an exotic species in a body of water doesn’t necessarily mean the end of life as we know it.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Fish, Flowers, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Nature, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Where Wonders Never Freeze

By Jeffrey Broberg | March 15, 2021 |

Life in the winter trout streams of the Driftless.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Nature, Photography, Resource Management Tagged With: fish, insects

More than Honey

By Agate and Laurie Schneider | January 15, 2021 |

A conversation with Laurie Schneider, founder of the Pollinator Friendly Alliance

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues Tagged With: pollinators

Monarchs

By Laurie Allmann | January 25, 2020 |

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Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: butterflies, monarchs

Diary of a mad tree planter

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 8, 2017 |

Planting a mix of young trees in anticipation of losing our black ash.Photo by Stephanie Hemphill

Northern Minnesota landowners prepare for the arrival of the Emerald ash borer.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature, resource management

A Poetry Event for the Bees

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 8, 2017 |

Photo by Jeni O'Brien.

Agate Magazine and Holy Cow! Press are teaming up to create a hive of bee activities in Duluth.

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: conservation, Nature, poetry

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