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Bee City Los Alamos

Monarch Butterflies & Day of the Dead

November Featured Pollinator, by Jenna Stanek Featured Image taken from the Internet: Save Our Monarchs For centuries, Mexico’s monarchs have served as a powerful cultural symbol connecting the living to the dead. Today the monarch…

Bee City Los Alamos

November 2024 Newsletter & Blog

Photo of Monarch Butterfly thanks to Xerces.org Bee City Los Alamos November 2024 Newsletter & Blog As temperatures drop, the landscape around the mesas is transforming, and so are the needs of our local wildlife…

New Mexico Butterflies

More on Butterfly Names

What Else is in a Name? by Marta Reese. A four-hour drive followed by miles of bushwhacking up steep slopes through head-high vegetation and over dead tree trunks should be rewarded, preferably with a new-to-me…

PEEC News

Wilderness First Aid 2-Day Course

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is hosting a Wilderness First Aid 2-Day Course on Saturday and Sunday, November 2-3, 2024, from 8 AM to 5 PM each day. This course, taught by Jeff DeBellis,…

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