“While insects and other animal pollinators may come in small sizes, they play a large partnership role in the production of the food we eat, in the future of our wildlife, and in the health of nearly all flowering plants. A garden without bees, butterflies, beetles, birds and even bats, is a garden devoid of the life-giving relationships that sustain plant reproduction.” http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/
Good suggestions below, and please don’t use chemicals:
Plant a Pollinator Garden.
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- Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.
- Whenever possible, choose native plants. Native plants will attract more native pollinators and can serve as larval host plants for some species of pollinators.
- If monarch butterflies live within your area, consider planting milkweed so their caterpillars have food.
- Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators
- Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/
- http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/host-plants-for-butterflies.html
- http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/beneficial/creating-a-pollinator-garden.htm
- http://www.wildones.org/
- http://www.xerces.org/
- http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/insects/dask/dask_poskPropListCH24Oct2013.html
- http://pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2015.htm
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