Promoting nature awareness and appreciation in
Port Moody, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, BC and beyond.
SFU biologists are interested in obtaining yellow jackets for their research on pheromones in these social wasps. If you have a yellow jacket nest on your property and want it safely removed (for free!), please email Sebastian Ibarra at: sibarra AT sfu DOT ca. Yellow jackets nest almost exclusively in holes in the ground or…
As part of opening celebrations of a new TD branch in Port Coquitlam, BMN has received an extremely generous donation of $5000 from the “TD Friends of the Environment Foundation”:http://fef.td.com/. With this money along with funds raised by BMN several years ago, we will produce *A Young Explorer’s Guide to Nature in the TriCities*. This…
Japanese knotweed (_Polygonum cuspidatum_) is a highly invasive plant that grows rapidly and crowds out native plants destroying natural habitat in the process. For years, the dykes along DeBoville Slough in Port Coquitlam were badly infested until the “Friends of DeBoville Slough”:http://www.fodbs.org/index.html began an aggressive program of regularly cutting the knotweed down to the ground.…
Vancouver joins a host of other people from around the world who also celebrate birds. For the third year in a row, Vancouver celebrates World Migratory Bird Day during a week-long series of events from May 4-11, 2013. We will also join International Migratory Bird Day to celebrate the migration of birds in the Americas.…
A Heron Walk is a walk to *view herons*, and has nothing to do with herons themselves walking…. Two guided Heron Walks were held last month by members of the Colony Farm Park Association, with the help of several BMN members. Photographer Jennifer Gauthier of the _Coquitlam NOW_ newspaper attended one of the walks, and…