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Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity, or #BiodiversityDay! PAN staff are celebrating the plants, insects, birds, and other wildlife we're seeing in all the different places we are by sharing photos here. Will you join us and share your own? Check it out:
Melons between zinnia and borage at his farm in Tripoli, Iowa from farmer and PAN communications associate Rob Faux! #BiodiversityDay
Anise swallowtail butterfly on Limnanthes douglasii or "Meadow Foam" (a CA & OR native) from PAN senior scientist @MarciaIshii in her Berkeley, CA garden. #BiodiversityDay
Honeybees from PAN organizer and policy advocate @ChandraMedha from a friend's backyard in Concord, CA #BiodiversityDay
A tiny moth on a rosemary bush in her San Jose, CA garden, from PAN ED @KristinAtPAN #BiodiversityDay
Red cedar and rhododendron from PAN grants and foundations manager Christy Rodgers from the great Northwest! #BiodiversityDay
From co-director of @CAPestReform Sarah Aird's San Francisco apartment building's 20’ x 60’ backyard, (which is surrounded on all four sides by buildings at least 7 stories tall), a Cooper’s hawk! (it comes for the pigeons). #BiodiversityDay
On the opposite end of the food chain, from PAN organizer Devika Ghai, here’s a photo of a worm and an ant in Minneapolis, MN soil! #BiodiversityDay
A beautiful Red Admiral butterfly on a walk through San Francisco from PAN communications manager @etsummerlin #BiodiversityDay
And a VIDEO of a jellyfish in Lake Merritt, Oakland! From PAN senior scientist @MargaretatPAN and her partner Ray! #BiodiversityDay
Widespread use of pesticides is increasingly understood to be driving major #biodiversity and population losses among insects, birds and other pollinators, threatening ecosystem integrity. More from @MarciaIshii here: https://bit.ly/2TyCm0i
From PAN staff scientist @EmilyAtPAN, a photo from her neighbor's flower garden in Berkeley, CA. Can you spot the honeybee? #BiodiversityDay
