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Jean Ponzi of the Missouri Botanical Garden explained how fogging for mosquitoes has grave impacts on the ecosystem as a whole — and how we can make ourselves less attractive to these pests without harming the environment.
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Andrew Wyatt, senior vice president of horticulture at the Missouri Botanical Garden, discusses what garden researchers know about the Karomia gigas tree species, and the garden’s efforts to prevent its extinction.
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In recent decades, climate change has shifted when Missouri wildflowers bloom. Once-forgotten data found in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden have become a springboard for St. Louis scientists studying how climate change may affect the survival of native plants in the future.
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Missouri Botanical Garden garden researchers delve into the center's conservation efforts in Madagascar. Ecologist Adam Smith studied the island's deforestation and found that all of Madagascar's rainforests could disappear by 2080. Botanist Jeannie Raharimampionona explains how MoBot's protected sites in Madagascar aim to combat this prediction.
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Tad Yankoski, Missouri Botanical Garden’s senior entomologist and "bug dad," returns to the program to dismantle cockroaches' bad reputation and detail some of their positive attributes.
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Missouri Botanical Garden President Peter Wyse Jackson and Senior Vice President of Science Jim Miller share examples of the garden's new plant discoveries worldwide, and talk about the overarching view and particularities of this work.
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The fall foliage looks a bit different from that of past years. Among the golden, warm-toned hues sprucing up the St. Louis region for autumn are a noticeable number of green leaves. Daria McKelvey of the Missouri Botanical Garden explains why.
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Missouri Botanical Garden horticulturist Susie Ratliff has worked at the center's Climatron since 1997. She'll share tidbits about the geodesic dome's iconic history and all the care that goes into its living collection.
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Live cultural events are typically a big part of summer life for many in the St. Louis region. But this year, musicals at the Muny, free concerts and…
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Tad Yankoski is an entomologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Butterfly House. His job mainly consists of tending to the site’s cockroaches, beetles,…