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With a sudden burst of unseasonably warm weather this past week, the spring ephemerals have leapt into blooming here in the Quad Cities region. Our remnant woodlands are now teaming with whites, purples, blues, and yellows, and the early spring pollinators are hard at work. Bumblebee (Bombus) queens and mining bees (Andrena) have awoken fromContinue reading “Hunting Down the Prairie Trout Lily”