Participate in helping to track native bees in the United States. The Great Sunflower Project is an easy backyard citizen science program where you can help track bee populations by simply planting sunflowers and counting how long it takes for five bees to visit. Their site provides forums for help along with photo galleries if [...]

This is a wildlife project you can do with kids or for an adult who just likes to make backyard bird friendly items. Fruit cups make great winter bird feeding when berries and natural fruit foods are getting scarce. Tip: If doing this with children, just go ahead and go outside right now. It’s messy. [...]

Help the Wildlife Federation, Cornell University Labs, the National Audubon Society and others by simply reporting wildlife in your backyard. It’s easy, you can do it online! Please participate in just one of these citizen science projects. It’s a fun activity you can do with kids by letting them report their own wildlife or bird [...]

Make a toad abode. Simple tufa pebble toad house for garden habitats

When creating a backyard habitat, don’t forget the toad! Every garden needs a toad or two to help keep the bug population down. Toads can eat thousands of insects from a vegetable garden or flower bed. If you want to attract frogs or toads, the first thing you must do is not spray pesticides! Frogs [...]