Adrienne DomingusHoney bees — Varroa destructor and a parable (part 2)Read part 1 here·8 min read·Mar 7, 2023----
Adrienne DomingusHoney bees — who really needs saving? (Part 1)Nature is complex and we operate from a position of never having as much information as we would like.·7 min read·Mar 3, 2023----
Adrienne DomingusForaging: Eating What Grows (and When What Grows is Invasive)I first found a patch of stinging nettle the way most with an untrained eye do — by getting stung, betrayed by the gap at my wrist between…·7 min read·Jan 30, 2023----
Adrienne DomingusBeauty’s Place in an EcosystemThe first winter we lived in our house, we cleared about a dozen holly trees lining the road front of our house. Neighbors were pleased…·8 min read·Jan 21, 2023----
Adrienne DomingusEcological Ring-Around-the-Rosy: When Invasives Aren’t All BadI am trying to kill the fig buttercup the way I’m supposed to according to the government website, but right now there’s a bee on it. —…·4 min read·Jan 6, 2023----
Adrienne DomingusThe Living Dead of the Forest: Snags and Nurse LogsI sat and watched a pileated woodpecker build a nest for twenty minutes recently. Minutes I meant to be spending doing other things. These…·6 min read·Dec 29, 2022----
Adrienne DomingusRubus: Fairytales and a Shared Seattle NemesisWhen Sleeping Beauty, also known as Little Briar-Rose fell into an enchanted sleep on her fifteenth birthday, having pricked her finger on…·6 min read·Nov 29, 2022----
Adrienne DomingusRed Alders: Forest Succession and the Weed Tree that Makes it PossibleWe had an arborist out to our house recently, because a hemlock tree nearly 80 feet tall and not a dozen feet from our house was clearly in…·6 min read·Nov 15, 2022----
Adrienne DomingusBradley Sisters, Bradley Method“Bringing back the bush involves two quite different kinds of time. The first is time spent working…the second is the time spent…·13 min read·Oct 29, 2022----
Adrienne DomingusBeautiful Invasions, Part II: The Generalized Invasion CurveRead part I here·9 min read·Oct 20, 2022----