Connecting with Nature
Amazing to Witness the Pollination of a Kapok Tree
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Kapok trees in the Virgin Islands attract local leaf-nosed fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) One morning at the Unitarian Fellowship meeting...
March Showers Brought Sweet Flowers from Native Trees
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Sugar Ant flowers March Showers Brought Sweet Flowers from Native Trees A morning of heavy rain brought out the Sugar Ants. Not insects,...
Who Was Nibbling on Our Passion Fruit?
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We were delighted to have a bountiful passion fruit harvest this year. However, we got frustrated when they kept hanging on the vines hig...
Rare Ducks Were VIPs in the 2024 St. John Christmas Bird Count
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Female Hooded Merganser duck At Francis Bay, we were thrilled to spot a group of four Hooded Mergansers diving for fish in the deepest part...
Semipalmated Sandpipers and Plovers Are Showing Up at Virgin Islands Beaches
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Semipalmated sandpiper (left) and Semipalmated plover I think of these small birds as the ‘semipalmated sisters’. Though they are not actua...
Sugar Apples and Soursops Have Stateside Relatives: Pawpaws
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The North American Pawpaw tree (Asimina triloba) is a member of the Annonaceae or custard apple family – the only member that is native to t...
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