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Under the Paseo bridge at 77th Street in Kansas City, native flowers and insects are springing up thanks to one local artist bringing beauty to a neglected corner of the metro.
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Monarchs migrating across North America are expected to pass through the Kansas City area around September 10. Naturalists say the best ways to support them are to plant milkweed and nectar plants and create butterfly gardens.
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A species of wiggling worms can jump a foot in the air, and they’ve spread to more than a dozen states in the Midwest, including Kansas and Missouri.
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KC Parks and Rec says replacing annuals and grass with native plants can help conserve water and other resources. It's one of several initiatives by the city to combat climate change.
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Local homeowners have taken up the cause of No Mow May, which encourages people to temporarily pause their lawn-mowing in order to support the bees, butterflies and moths vital to pollination. In early spring, weeds are some of their prime food sources.
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Bradford pear trees — an invasive species that chokes out native plants — are blooming all across Kansas and Missouri right now, so it’s the perfect time for biologists to track them down and kill them. Plus, why a Missouri prison is training incarcerated men in computer programming.
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Whether you’ve been cultivating your green thumb for years or are just beginning your succulent obsession, these local stores have everything you need.
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The problem was a park's storm water drain overrun by poison ivy, honeysuckle and other invasive species. The solution was 42 hungry goats.
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More home gardeners in Kansas City are deciding to fill their yards not with grass, but with native wildflowers, which are better for the environment. But that’s putting these homeowners in conflict with their neighbors, and Kansas City code.
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Dennis Moriarty was thinking of the bees and butterflies when he replaced all the grass in his front yard with wildflowers.
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Researchers at the Missouri Botanical Garden have been waiting almost three years for the Karomia gigas tree, a species that's dangerously near extinction, to flower and bloom.
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In a few years, Kansas Citians will be able to wander 500 acres of tallgrass prairie close to home. A Johnson County park is in the midst of the area’s largest prairie restoration project.