Don’t trust lady’s-slippers (if you’re a bee)
![This honeybee was tricked into pollinating this yellow lady’s-slipper. (Photo by Steven Anderson/NCC staff)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/honeybee-and-yellow-ladys-slipper-ncc-thumb.jpg)
This honeybee was tricked into pollinating this yellow lady’s-slipper. (Photo by Steven Anderson/NCC staff)
Before I began working at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), I spent six years studying the pollination of two species of lady’s-slipper orchids in Manitoba and the northern U.S. While I no longer spend all of my time thinking about...
Adjusting to change
![Assiniboine Delta, MB (Photo by Jordan Becker)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/land/mb/Assiniboine-Delta-JordanBecker.jpg)
Assiniboine Delta, MB (Photo by Jordan Becker)
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the...
Acknowledging change
![Growing up on a farm in southwestern Manitoba, some of my clearest memories are of the extreme temperatures I experienced. (Photo courtesy of Steven Anderson)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/steven-anderson-on-farm-thumb.jpg)
Growing up on a farm in southwestern Manitoba, some of my clearest memories are of the extreme temperatures I experienced. (Photo courtesy of Steven Anderson)
“Everything changes and nothing stands still.” ~ Heraclitus of Ephesus, as quoted by Plato Growing up on a farm in southwestern Manitoba, some of my clearest memories are of the extreme temperatures I experienced in that lovely...