Nick stands in front of scaffolding with a sweat bee projected on the wall. The mural is fun comic book half Tone blue and pink with beetles and a butterfly and milkweed and a hummingbird
Time to project our final insect
A woodpecker came to visit the mural 🥹
A poster for an event called biodiversity on April 22, 2026 an Earth Day cabaret at 254254 S. 12th St. door seven show 8 PM Burlesque and dragged performances in local vendors and educators performance performances by jaida MX Monstera, Victoria Reno, honey tree evil eye, DJ Carl michaels kitten pony Corbo benefiting by scientist. there are many girls interspersed among flowers, and one hot dude
Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert!
We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees!
At 254 (in center city!)
doors 7, show 8
Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com
Right?!! What is that about?!
This project is not in Fishtown, it’s up in east Kensington. Not directly on river!
Very good observation. Multiple people mentioned cherry blossoms and they’re blooming right now!
I do think people care about lightning bugs. But idk if the people in this neighborhood know they live here. They're nowhere near as abundant as in the burbs
This is an excellent question. I often find people ask me "are bugs animals"
Yeah i def don't think you're representative. People said "Pink flower trees" many put question marks next to stuff but just gave it their best shot
dunno
We say eye-gee-ay
The mural is about native plants and pollinators, so the goal is to work on this lol
And for the record, that table is all the invertebrates mentioned. Most people didn't mention invertebrates at all 😖
But when you DO draw boobs andor butts we all love it.
Honorable mention to the following answers
-The Gulls at IGA*
- Pink Flower Trees
- The Oak Trees in Norris Square Park
- Mulberries, UGH!
*a neighborhood grocery store
a straight up table with the following mention counts Animal # of mentions Bees 14 Butterfly 8 Earthworm 2 Moths 2 Crickets 1 Dragonflies 1 Fireflies 1 Flies 1 Grasshopper 1 Junebugs 1 Monarch butterflies 1 Praying mantis 1 Stickbugs 1 Bugs 1
I asked this question (among others) because I wanted to know how our neighbors think about our neighborhood's animals. Are they even thinking of bugs? Some people mentioned bees & butterflies, but only ONE person mentioned lightning bugs. Our state bug! An iconic bug! A bug in need of conservation!
Chart above leaves out anything mentioned less than once.
38 adults fill out the survey. 350 kids also participated in mural painting, but we didn't make them take surveys due to CHAOS, lack of time, lack of staff, just utterly unfeasible.
Ages ranged from 18-66. Most people were between 30 & 45.
We asked participants "Kensington is home to hundreds of species of plants and animals! Name 6 plants or animals that you would expect to find here.". Across 38 surveys, 81 organisms were mentioned. Here's who got mentioned the most.
Pardon the bad graph, I don't want to use R.
The first question in this survey is about general awareness. i want to know whether they know the animals around them and which animals they think of as being a part of their neighborhood's ecosystem. I'm still getting it all typed up but once I do I'll tabulate which critters get mentioned most
I'm "grading" the survey we gave to people who came out to our community paint day for our mural yesterday. WAY more correct answers than the folks 2 years ago. Makes sense- that one was about river animals, this one's terrestrial. Way easier to know animals you live among than aquatic neighbors.
Yes!
🥹
Not this time!
A poster for an event called biodiversity on April 22, 2026 an Earth Day cabaret at 254254 S. 12th St. door seven show 8 PM Burlesque and dragged performances in local vendors and educators performance performances by jaida MX Monstera, Victoria Reno, honey tree evil eye, DJ Carl michaels kitten pony Corbo benefiting by scientist. there are many girls interspersed among flowers, and one hot dude
Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert!
We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees!
At 254 (in center city!)
doors 7, show 8
Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com
UM
Okay!
ADHD absolutely limits your daily life.
HEY did you know that if you have ADHD you can get a free lifetime pass to our national parks?! Just need your psychiatrist to sign off on it. Holy mackerel how has no one told me this before.
After running 4 events this weekend, I am officially burnt to a crisp. But I have to get a grant submitted. Thank god my board member Shannon is here shepherding me through this submission so we have a prayer of getting some sustained funding for out mural projects. I am a husk rn.
A lady in a raincoat clutches for plants next to a sign that says these plants feed bees
Lots of plants and a stack of Philly biodiversity scenes and a sign that has a bunch of insects and plants on it illustrated
Giving out native plants at our Native Plant Extravaganza in Port Richmond’s Campbell Square Park!
We planted about 75 plugs and distributed an additional 75 to neighbors for their backyards and planters.
