Great spangled fritillaries depend on the violet and are another reason to leave leaf litter alone
You will see these butterflies on native plants such as milkweeds, mints and Joe-Pye weed as well as thistles and clover – but its eggs and caterpillars are all about violets.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a Peter Valentine memorial to trash circus
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a talk with Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka, visit from vile comedian Neil Hamburger, naughty flutists, a Peter Valentine memorial, the Cambridge Carnival and a number of smaller, end-of-summer festivals and other cultural events.
Forget the honeybee; Leafcutters deserve acclaim as better pollinators and cleverer crafters of nests
Unlike most other bees, which carry pollen on their rear legs, leafcutters carry pollen on the undersides of their abdomens, where it falls off easily. About 150 leafcutters can provide the same pollination results as 3,000 honeybees.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Mount Auburn tour to campfire. Festival
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a monarch butterfly release celebration, book readings, an improv comedy jam and original musical comedy event, theater and art, Mount Auburn Cemetery walking tour, Rock and Roll Yard Sale, four-day Labor Day campfire. Festival and much more.
Great egrets were hunted for great aigrettes, leading to near extinction and great regrets
Great egrets are majestic herons with long, beautiful white feathers, and during the 1800s hunters almost exterminated the birds because they so valued them.
Smaller business and property owners anxious over costs of new clean-energy requirements
With strict and fast-approaching clean-energy deadlines, some business and property owners find themselves caught between their progressive environmental views and what they see as realistic financially.
Eliodora ‘Josefina’ Yanguas Perez opened Harvard Square’s first European-style café
Today there are at least 20 cafés in Cambridge where patrons can enjoy espresso drinks. In 1959, there was exactly one. That was the year Spanish immigrant Josefina Yanguas opened Café Pamplona on Bow Street.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville from Moth storytelling to monarch butterflies
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s festivals of comedy, hip-hop and Somergloom, plenty of theater and dance, and everything from a Moth Story Slam to a monarch butterfly release celebration.
Mosquitoes may deserve more understanding, but we still have advice on avoiding these pests
Fifty-one species of mosquitoes live in Massachusetts, where they may have been vital in the American Revolution. There are ways to ways to avoid or kill them more safely.
The Foundry and Squirrel Brand Apartments share something: examples of adaptive reuse
Cambridge is no stranger to adaptive reuse projects, which revitalize an existing structure for new purposes. One has been around since 2002; the other is opening soon.
