Native Plants of North Georgia: There’s an App for That!
The University of Georgia Extension has released an app to help families and outdoor enthusiasts make the most of their outdoor explorations. “Native Plants of North Georgia,” now available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices, is a consumer-oriented field guide of the flowers, trees, ferns and shrubs that populate North Georgia’s yards and forests. Mickey […]
Spring Brings New Life — and Possibly a Few Dead Fish
As the weather warms (hopefully soon!) don’t be alarmed if you spot a small number of dead fish along your lake or pond shoreline. Fish die-offs are not at all uncommon in the spring. So-called “spring kills” occur when a small number of fish who survived the winter die as the water warms. These events […]
Can Going Green Keep Your Lake Clean?
As the world has grown more aware of personal and corporate environmental footprints, here at Aquascape we’ve received a growing number of requests for “green” and/or “natural” methods of algae and aquatic weed control. There’s no all-natural magic bullet to solve the problem of unwanted aquatic growth in a hot Georgia summer, but there are […]
Snakes in the Rain
Image credit: Evan CarpenterAs reported recently on several local Atlanta news outlets, the seemingly endless rains we’ve experienced this spring and summer have resulted in a slithering side effect: a rise in snake encounters. After years of drought, during which snakes tend to stay in the shade, the wet weather has brought them out in […]
What’s that Blob?
Image of a Pectinatella magnifica. Credit: Triclops200Recently we noticed that one of the most popular articles of all time on www.aquascape.net is “The Blob.” Since we doubt folks are surfing our site for a review of the 1958 sci-fi film, it seems that there’s a lot of interest in the gelatinous masses spotted on the […]
Aquatic Invaders in Henry County
WSB-TV recently featured a story about a Henry County pond that has big problems with parrotfeather, an invasive plant that was introduced intentionally by a neighbor (watch the video here). We see this kind of problem way too often. Here are a couple of past articles that address the issue: Bucket Biology is Bad Business […]
Phoslock Treatment for Phosphorus Reduction
Our team recently assisted one of our clients in solving a pressing problem with their lake. The lake was exhibiting hypereurotrophic characteristics (frequent and severe nuisance algal blooms and low transparency). In particular, this lake has experienced repeated blooms of various forms cyanobacteria (aka Blue Green Algae) including Mycrosystis. This type of algae can produce […]
Track the progress of the season with the “Frog Symphony”
The Spring 2013 issue of Northern Woodlands magazine has a terrific article about frog and toad songs. “The Annual Frog Symphony” posits that careful listeners can enjoy a symphony in “three major movements” of frog and toad calls through the spring season, and features a gallery of sound clips (with lovely illustrations by Lauren DiBiccari of the […]
