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 Thursday, August 17, 2023;   3:30-6 PM

Beneficial Insect Habitat Open House

Cornell AgriTech Vegetable Research Farm, Geneva, NY

 

Event by New York State Integrated Pest Management Program

Location: Cornell AgriTech Vegetable Research Farm, Geneva, NY

 

For the past six years, NYSIPM has been cultivating perennial grasses and wildflowers that feed and attract beneficial insects. Our annual Open House is the perfect opportunity to gain insight into creating your own habitat, learn about the successes and setbacks we’ve encountered along the way and find out what types of insects are “beneficial” to your outdoor space.

 

This year’s program will also include a special focus on the seeds that were used in the establishment of our habitat, with guided explorations by Petra Page-Mann from Fruition Seeds in Naples, NY. Explorations begin at 3:45, 4:45 and 5:45.

This event is free and open to the public.

 

Visit to The BUTERFLY EFFECT in Geneva, NY

We will tour the Butterfly Effect with Jim Norwalk in Geneva, NY on Saturday, August 12, 2023.

Our tour will begin at 10 AM.  Due to limited parking in Geneva, we are encouraging folks to carpool from the parking lot behind the Ontario County Courthouse on Sly Street in Canandaigua at 9:00 AM. Please let us know if you would prefer to meet at 10 in Geneva (canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com) and we will provide the address.

 Butterfly Effect was started in 2020 by local birdwatcher and nature enthusiast, Jim Norwalk.  Jim was born and raised in Buffalo, NY and he became a naturalist in the Pacific Northwest, where he studied at the Evergreen State College and worked as a wildlife biologist. Jim researched the population dynamics of Swainson's warblers in South Carolina for his graduate degree and obtained a Master's in Forestry from North Carolina State University. 

Since moving to Geneva in 2007, Jim has worked as an 

Animal and Plant Care Specialist at Hobart and William 

Smith Colleges and has supported local conservation 

efforts through his participation in the Green Committee 

and the Shade Tree Committee. As Jim collected seeds 

and plants to build a wildlife-friendly habitat in his own 

home garden, he became aware of the need to increase 

community access to native plants. He hopes that Butterfly 

Effect will encourage more individuals to take the small steps 

needed to create pollinator pathways in the Finger Lakes.

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Eighteen folks met at Jim's Butterfly Effect nursery on a pleasant 

Saturday morning (before the afternoon rain).  Jim gave a great 

history of the Butterfly Effect property at 2678 Lyons Road, which 

he purchased in February 2023. Prior to this location, Jim worked 

at location in Waterloo with a vision of increasing the biodiversity 

of native species in our area. It looks like he's made wonderful

progress despite setbacks along the way. His plans for the future 

are sure to benefit pollinators and property owners alike.  Many of 

us were happy to be able to purchase plants.

Jim talked about the Biota of North America Program where 

you can find the North America Plant Atlas to check to see if 

plants are native to our area (using scientific names).

 

Jim designed the nursery area with movable posts to accommodate a growing nursery into the future. A heavy felted landscape cloth is used as flooring.  Jim credits Jim Engel of White Oak Nursery for this idea.

Plants are cleverly marked with old shade slats!

These images were taken from The Butterfly Effect's facebook page:

The Butterfly Effect is just south of SKUSE Rd on NY-14/Lyons Road

Midsummer Impromptu Field trip

 Tuesday, July 25, 2023   10 AM

Ontario Pathways  

Please plan to join us as we check out the summer plants along Ontario Pathways south towards the train wreck loops.  We'll also talk about ideas and plans for our sesquicentennial.

There's plenty of parking at the blue arrow on Railroad Ave/Waddell Rd between 488 and 23 in the hamlet of Orleans, NY.

It was a sunny and warm Tuesday morning when 5 members met for a walk along Ontario Pathways south of the Orleans water tower. It was also VERY BUGGY!

knapweed

chicory

black walnut and female sumac

yellow jewelweed/touch-me-not and mugwort

still in the parking area, poison ivy with jewelweed in the back

dryad's saddle

phlox (bordering next door property)

woodland phlox (five petals)

crown vetch

moth mullein

pin cherry

dogwood

invasive swallowort

invasive European buckthorn

pale swallowort flowers

fuzzy stems of sumac

oak tree

lance-leafed coreopsis

cinquefoil

red baneberry

bedstraw and bloodroot leaves

splitgill

shy fleebane

hickory tussock moth

false solomon seal

Anemone virginiana - thimble weed

Train wreck loop along Flint Creek

black-foot polypore

whorled loostrife

agrimony

saint john's wort

yellow jewelweed 

lots of tall meadow rue in bloom

joe pye weed

American germander

moneywort (creeping Jenny?)

monkeyflower

pigskin poison puffball

ghost pipe

False solomon seal, mayapple, periwinkle/Myrtle

periwinkle, meadow rue, false solomon seal, poison ivy

trying to determine golden alexander/zizia or gout weed

bishop's goutweed along Flint creek

pale jelly roll fungi

wild leeks - ramp flowers

bladder nut

more meadow rue

gray's sedge

confused haploa moths

great blue lobelia

may apple

poison ivy

herb Robert

sumac - fuzzy stems

moth mullein

jack-in-the pulpit berries

we watched two woodpeckers high up in the trees - flicker?

This monarch welcomed me home after our walk