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		<title>What are these yellow flowers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Question: I saw these wildflowers in the central California Valley near Aptos. They are about the size of a quarter. What are they? Submitted by: Alan, California, USA The Short Answer: Your flowers are definitely one of several species of poppies in the genus Eschscholzia found in California. Most probably they are Eschscholzia lobbii, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is that popping noise in the lily pads?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Question: Sitting beside a small lake in Massachusetts with many lily pads, we kept hearing a popping noise, almost like bubblegum snapping. What makes that sound? Submitted by: Greg, New York, USA The Sort of Short Answer: Full disclosure: Greg was visiting me, and we were sitting beside the lake and he asked me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Video of Pollinators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have fallen a little behind in responding to questions, but hopefully, I&#8217;ll start catching up in the next few days, but I wanted to share some amazing slow motion, time-lapse and close-up video of pollinators by filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg. He talks for about three minutes about why he films flowers and their pollinators, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this Trinity Alps wildflower?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Question: On a recent mid-July trip to the Trinity Alps in Northern California we saw many of these 2&#8242;-4&#8242; tall plants, most just starting to show emerging flower heads. I thought they were so common that ID would be a cinch, but no such luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Submitted by: Marianne, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this Strange Root?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Question: I was kayaking in a wetland area off a chain of lakes in northwestern Wisconsin this weekend, and I paddled by this. Do you know what it is? The water on the lake/wetland is really high right now due to lots of rain. When we tried to pick this up, it seemed like [...]]]></description>
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