The Long Island Conservancy

Kill The Spotted Lanternfly and The Tree of Heaven -- An Online Forum
2023-09-07 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Little Green Shoots Studio, 275 Candee Ave, Sayville, NY, 11782, United States
The Spotted Lanternfly is now making it’s way east, following the highways and the train lines, clustering on trees, with the worst yet to come. The Spotted Lanternfly was only recently introduced here in 2012 as a ‘stowaway’:
Spotted lanternfly (SLF), Lycorma delicatula, an invasive planthopper native to China, is thought to have arrived as egg masses on a stone shipment in 2012. That first infestation was found in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 2014 in a wooded area of Ailanthus altissima, or Tree of Heaven.”
Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
The Tree of Heaven by contrast, was introduced here in the 1700’s as an exotic from China. Like any non-native plant, it is invisible to native insects, and therefore has been a landscaper’s favorite. They call such plants exotics or ornamentals. You will hardly ever find an insect bite on them UNLESS that insect is also non-native, and is adapted to feed off that plant.
For The Spotted Lanternfly, The Tree Heaven is “home cooking.” They will spread to where there is Tree of Heaven growing. And the problem is, it is now growing about everywhere, along our highways, trainlines, and in our public parks and forests and The Spotted Lanternfly is right there with them.
In this public discussion of the tree and the fly, we will discuss how to identify and kill the Tree of Heaven, as well as how we may defend our farms and properties from the spotted lanternfly.
Tree of heaven – Latin name – Ailanthus altissima
REGISTER HERE TO BE A PART OF THE DISCUSSION THURSDAY SEPT 7TH 11-12.
Please visit our Library to view our previous videos.

Little Green Shoots -- Mosquitoes And How to Kill Them Responsibly
2023-08-29 11:00 - 11:30 UTC | Little Green Shoots Studio, 275 Candee Ave, Sayville, NY, 11782, United States
In our inaugural episode of Little Green Shoots, a podcast dedicated to Long Island’s environmentalists and their work, we will be joined by Kim Simmen of Rewild Long Island and KMS Native Plants, and by YOU, the audience!
To join us and participate live on Tuesday August 29th at 11:00 AM, please REGISTER HERE.
Mosquito Dunks

We Are Selling Native Plants at Summerfest!
2023-08-05 10:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Dubai) | Summerfest, Main Street, Sayville, NY, 11782, United States
We are selling native plants on Main Street Sayville at Summerfest Saturday, August 5th!
Couldn’t make it to our “Plant Raiser” for Sayville’s parks at South Shore Dive Thursday?
Sayville High School selling their plants
Sugar Maple
Showy Aster

See you here!
Summerfest

Summerfest
Come Meet Our Plants
Plants For Sale

We be selling native plants and talking about them with you from 10AM-6PM
We will be offering a variety of native plants and trees, and will be listing what plants we will be selling in the coming days as we inventory them. By selling these native plants (while advising on their care and feeding), we can help Sayville go native!
The money we will raise will go to two of our local endeavors: At Meadow Croft, aka The Roosevelt Estate, which is situated in a fork in Brown’s River, we are raising money for “ecotypes” or highly local native species, and seeking volunteers, ideally local school groups, who would be good stewards for these plantings. We have already done some significant plantings: 11 Red Maples, the Roosevelt Native Garden, and coming soon, an American Chestnut Mother Orchard.
American Chestnuts
Invasive Plant Removal
Native Garden at Meadow Croft

Planting Natives At The Chamber House
In addition to selling native plants, we will be signing up volunteers and putting together a native planting for The Greater Sayville Chamber of Commerce.

Chamber House (and Santa’s Workshop)

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Going Native -- The Many Benefits Of Creating Habitat In Our Yards
2023-05-18 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Sayville Library, 88 Greene Ave, Sayville, NY, 11782, United States
“Planting native plants while removing the invasive ones is the key to Long Island’s environmental future.”
REGISTER HERE FOR THE MAY 18th 7 PM TALK AT SAYVILLE LIBRARY
Marshall Brown, Executive Director, The Long Island Conservancy, will share with us the benefits of using plants native to Long Island in our yards and gardens. Native plants can help with increased water absorption which means less flooding. They help filter water as it travels from land to the bay, creating a cleaner bay, and they also help to bring back the birds and insects we need to re-balance our natural Long Island habitats. Come find out more and how easy it is to make a difference in your own yard and in your community!
Thanks to Ryan Sweezey for this award winning photograph
“A haven for all flora and fauna native to Long Island, Marshall Brown’s property in Sayville is a testament to imaginative, imperative, and inspiring ecologically sound lawns.” — Suffolk County News, 8-18-2022, Sean Desmond
Blue Wild Indigo and Swamp Milkweed
Seaside Goldenrod
Purple Cone Flower
You can register for the talk here at the library’s site.
We will begin by discussing what is now growing in our yards and in our public spaces — non-natives and invasive plants like
Porcelain Berry
Oriental. Bittersweet
Garlic Mustard
Japanese Knotweed in Sayville
From there we will talk of what the environmental implications are for having so few native plants, and so many invasive ones, including English Ivy and privet hedge. How does that effect local wildlife populations? What happens to our birds, insects, reptiles, fish and amphibians when there is little native vegetation?
We will round out our discussion by suggesting what each of us can do in our own yards to make a difference. Planting native in our yards and in our open spaces will aid local wildlife, bring natural beauty to your property. It won’t need all the water, fertilizer, and pesticides that non-natives do.
Kentucky Blue Grass is actually of Eurasian origin and is considered an invasive in the Great Plains where it is driving out native grasses. Think of what it takes in terms of water, fertilizer, and various fungicides and herbicides to keep that lawn glowing green. And since the lawn is invasive, you are guaranteed all sorts of weeds that you have to battle constantly and at some cost to your wallet and the environment.
We recommend in particular reading Nature’s Best Hope, or becoming familiar with Prof Tallamy’s central thesis, which is that is essential that we each everywhere seek to rebuild local habitat for our wildlife, beginning in our yards. The future for our local critters is in the balance, as we are effectively crowding them out, along with invasive plants and animals.
Planting natives at the scale we need to is an enormous task. We need 70% of our yards native to sustain local wildlife, and particularly in suburbs and in cities we are nowhere near that. There are a million species set to vanish globally in this Sixth Great Extinction. Let’s build ours “homes” by restoring native habitat everywhere we can, in our yards, public spaces, green rooftops. We will need to change how we plant and landscape, how we treat our soil, and do so quickly.
The Long Island Conservancy will be offering native wildflower seeds for your future pollinator garden!
Gathering Wildflower Seeds
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For Science Speaker Series: Going Native on Long Island
2023-04-08 11:00 - 16:00 UTC | Destination Unknown Brewery, 1 South Chicago Avenue, Bayshore, NY, 11706, United States
Going Native
“Going Native on Long Island.“
Destination Unknown Brewery‘s For Science Speaker Series continues this Saturday April 8th between 1-4 with “Going Native on Long Island.” Join us as Marshall Brown, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Long Island Conservancy, and Frank Piccininni, CEO of Spadefoot Design and Construction discuss native and invasive plants, and how each of us can create habitat for our local wildlife, even in our own yards. The hour long talk will be filmed and will be available as a podcast for those unable to attend.
This event is perfect for anyone who is going native, who cares about the environment and wants to learn how they can restore nature in their communities. Come for the conversation, stay for the beer, and leave with new knowledge and inspiration!
