Pollinating insects increase environmental diversity and drive seed and food production throughout the world. Nearly 1/3 of the food we eat requires pollination and local or home grown food needs local bees. Find out how you can help attract local pollinators, including beautiful butterflies and different types of native bees, by adding plants attractive to pollinators and supporting their life cycles in your yard.
Presented by Jennifer Lazewski, a UW-Madison Division of Extension volunteer with the Southeast Wisconsin Master Gardener Association. She is the founder and chairperson of its educational Pollinator Group. An experienced butterfly and hummingbird gardener before becoming a Master Gardener Volunteer, she continues to add native plants and shrubs to her small, urban Wauwatosa yard and delights in the expanding population of insects and wildlife that visit her garden. She also works on bumble bee monitoring and other community science projects with the DNR, local park systems, and nature center programs.
Handout links from the program:
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Click through the links for Tables to get the plant lists.
Supporting Native Bees (with plant list) Click on view publication and it will give a free PDF document to download (you don't have to pay for online version)
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Wisconsin Pollinator Protection Plan
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Wisconsin Bee ID
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Wisconsin Bumble Bee Brigade (bumblebee monitoring)
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Wisconsin Wild Bee App
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