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Category Archives: Pollinators
Great Backyard Bird Count February 12–15
Learn how you can participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count–all you have to do is watch birds for at least 15 minutes, at least once, from February 12 through February 15, 2021…Also, learn how to improve the habitat on your own property to make it more inviting for birds and butterflies. Continue reading
Posted in Pollinators
Tagged adult Monarch, Asclepias tuberosa, chrysalis, Creating Inviting Habitats, Great Backyard Bird Count, house wrens, Lantana, Monarch caterpillar, nest boxes, Ruby-throated Hummingbird
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PERENNIAL: Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aster)
Learn more about these lovely asters and watch a video with monarchs and other pollinators. Continue reading
Posted in Pollinators, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Tagged monarch butterflies, New England Aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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Flowers That Attract Pollinators and Robbers to a Garden
The shape, color, structure and odor of a flower usually determine the type of pollinators it attracts. A flower requires a pollinator that will visit it regularly and successfully transfer pollen in and/or between it and other flowers of its species to ensure fruit and seed production. For the service of pollination, the flower provides a reward: usually food such as nectar and/or pollen. Thus plants and their pollinators enjoy a mutualistic relationship. Continue reading
Posted in Pollinators
Tagged Anemone hupehensis 'September Charm', Aquilegia canadensis, Asclepias, blue wood aster, Buddleia, butterfly bush, cardinal flower, common boneset, common milkweed, coneflowers, Creating Inviting Habitats, dahlia, Echinacea, goldenrod, Hyssop-leaf Thoroughwort, Iris versicolor, jewelweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Lonicera sempervirens, milkweed, Monarda, mutualistic, nectar robbers, New England Aster, Onethera speciosa, pollinator syndromes, Red Buckeye, Rudbeckia, salvia, Solidago, wild columbine
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🐝 🐝 BEE-havior: The Bubble Bee – Hylaeus
At a mere ¼-inch long, Hylaeus bees do not dominate a flower like fuzzy bumble bees three to six times their size. However, if you have sharp eyes or a zoom camera lens you can appreciate their unique appearance and BEE-havior. Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, Pollinators
Tagged Asclepias incarnata, common boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Hylaeus bee, Pycnanthemum muticum, short-toothed mountain-mint, Swamp Milkweed
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