Happy National Pollinator Week! There are many ways to celebrate pollinator week:
1. Plant Native Plants. Native plants provides native pollinators with food in the form of pollen and nectar. Select plants that have a long bloom time. Also grow a wide selection of plants so you have plants blooming April through October.
2. Let your yard get a little messy. Leave unhazardous snags for nesting places and stack tree limbs to create a brush pile, which is a great source of cover for pollinators. Build an insect hotel or bee house in your landscape.
3. Create or protect water sources. Bees need water to drink. Create a water feature with rocks for insects to land. Be sure to keep birdbaths clean and change the water three times per week when mosquitoes are breeding.
4. Limit or eliminate pesticide use. By using fewer or no chemicals in the landscape you will help keep pollinator populations healthy.
5. Identify non-native invasive plants. Work to remove them from your yard. Do not bring any new invasive plants into your habitat. Invasive plants do not provide as much quality food or habitat as native plants do and can threaten healthy ecosystems.
If you live in or near Lincoln, attend this event:
“Pollinators on the Plaza”
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4-6 pm
Union Plaza, 21st & P Streets, Lincoln Nebraska
Public educational fair for all ages including:
- Pollinator planting/garden tours
- Information/educational booths with handouts and/or hands on activities
- Food vendors using pollinator based products (honey, etc)
- Pollinator bee displays, honey bee observation hive, monarch display, native bees
- Pollinator Yoga
- And more….
MJ Frogge
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