Archimedes Notebook

  This week is Pollinator week! And this year’s theme is Life on a Leaf: Celebrating Caterpillars and Host Plants . The theme highlights the...

  My Pollinator Garden: How I Plant for Bees, Butterflies, Beetles, and More (Books for a Better Earth)  by Jordan Zwetchkenbaum; illus. by...

  The Great Pollinator Count (Community Science Counts!)  by Susan Edwards Richmond; illus. by Stephanie Fizer Coleman  32 pages; ages 4-8 ...

 This is Pollinator Week!  Pollinators, like people, come in all shapes and sizes. Those visiting my garden include bumblebees, carpenter be...

  The Buzz on Wild Bees: The Little-Known Pollinators that Keep Our Planet Humming  by Kira Vermond; illust. by June Steube 40 pages; ages 7...

I’m celebrating pollinators all week with books and activities. Pollinators come in all shapes and sizes, from teensy bees to big flappy bat...

 

Summer is winding down, and everyone - trees, flowers, animals - is getting ready for fall. The roadsides are filled with yellow and purple ...

One of the things that attracts me to gardens is color. Bees are attracted by color, too! They appreciate yellow and orange and blue and pur...

Earlier this month I was watching the bees in my garden and saw this one collecting nectar from chive flowers. At first glance it looks like...

 One of the best ways to get to know your local pollinators is to go outside and meet them. So today let's head out and meet some bees. ...

This week is Pollinator Week! If you like food - especially pie - you've got pollinators to thank for making them possible. Same for wat...

If you’re a longtime follower of my blog, you know I am passionate about bees. I spent a summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab (RMBL) ...

One last bug book for the month! Bugs in Danger by Mark Kurlansky; illus. by Jia Liu 176 pages; ages 8 - 12 Bloomsbury Children's...

This week is National Pollinator Week ~ a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them. Poll...

This month, Archimedes is focusing on bugs ... I mean, insects! So slip on your exploring shoes and head out to a garden - or anywhere that...

This month, Archimedes is focusing on insects of all types. Today it's one of my favorites: BEES! Where Have All the Bees Gone? Poll...

While out looking for bees, I came upon this guy. Not a bee at all - look closely and you notice that it has only one p...

I don't worry too much about the dandelions sprinkled over my yard. They fit in, mixed among violets, strawberries, buttercups, and ...

Spring is here. Trees are flowering and dandelions are blooming, providing pollen for the native bees and honey bees. So this week I'm f...