Francesca Claverie

Evergreen sumac, rhus virens, in bloom. Photo by Sue Carnahan It doesn’t really make sense for plants with leaves to keep them after the first hard frost of the season. Who would want to spend the energy protecting your weak regenerating appendages from frostbite night after night rather than just going dormant and waiting for […]

There are almost 30 species of bats in Arizona and all of them eat insects except for two nectar feeders, Choeronycteris mexicana (Mexican longtongued bat) and Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, (lesser long nosed bat). Nectar feeding bats are little nighttime plantpollinators that follow the blooming cycles of mostly succulent blooms like agave and cacti from Mexico in […]