Why Your Pollinator Garden NEEDS Specialist Host Plants!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- A pollinator garden isn’t complete unless you’re planting for SPECIALIST pollinators! They are important but overlooked, and many have become rare and endangered - but we can plant for them and LOOK for them!
Join me as I explore some special host plants we can plant in our very own gardens!
Your pollinator garden isn’t complete without planting for SPECIALIST pollinators!
E.O. Wilson on “The Little Things That Run The World”:
th-cam.com/video/ihMipJAvLRY/w-d-xo.html
Search for insect native range and check its status here:
explorer.natureserve.org
Check a plant's native range here:
bonap.org
Menus for specialist bees across North America:
Eastern:
jarrodfowler.com/specialist_bees.html
Central:
jarrodfowler.com/bees_pollen.html
Western:
jarrodfowler.com/pollen_specialist.html
Plant for Monarchs!
xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/18-003_02_Monarch-Nectar-Plant-Lists-FS_web%20-%20Jessa%20Kay%20Cruz.pdf
Karner Blue Butterfly identification:
dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/endangeredresources/karner/identification
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee:
www.xerces.org/endangered-species/species-profiles/at-risk-bumble-bees/rusty-patched-bumble-bee
Blueberry Specialist Bees:
val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vtbees/blueberries/
More resources:
beecityusa.org/very-specialist-bees-and-the-flowers-they-love/
cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/2/86606/files/2021/04/GuidetoSpecialistBeesofOhio_2021.pdf
www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/mighty-mutualisms-the-nature-of-plant-pollinator-13235427/
Your videos are great. I love the creativity. You don’t make many videos but they’re worth waiting for. Thanks!
Can't tell you how much that means - that made my day! 💓
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I literally just planted the wrong variety of lupine seeds last week. This video helped me realize that so now I’m going to replace it with the eastern variety.
Oh no! Unfortunately it’s very easily done…I wish companies marketing wild seed were more transparent about what was in those little packets. There are a few really high quality and reputable companies that specialize in native seeds and plants. As I’ve learned about their processes, it’s clearly hard work that requires a lot of dedication - I’ve come to really appreciate what they do!
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I just want to add to all of the great comments that it makes you feel so good when you get to see all kind of differents insectd enjoying whst you offer in your garden. Thanks ...
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Thank you for the incredible amount of effort you clearly put in creating the content and researching this video. Brava! Hear that? That's the sound of butterflies , moths, and bees clapping.
Thank you so much for the incredibly kind words!! 💕
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Thank you so much, that’s incredibly kind!
Fascinating and very well put together. Love the info in this one. And how cute are these little pollinators!
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Thank you so much, that’s very kind!
(If anything is inaccurate or wrong in my post please don’t be mean about it.)
With Monarchs its best to avoid planting Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)
Even though it can meet the requirements as a host plant, it does raise the risk of spreading OE (a parasite). If you do have Tropical Milkweed, be sure to cut back your plant by Thanksgiving. This will reduce the amount of spores being spread AND help encourage monarch migration. There’s a way to “sanitize” the plant with a bleach mixture but I personally haven’t done that.
The other downside of tropical milkweed is that it tends to grow and flower year round. This can indirectly harm monarch butterflies as they may lay their eggs on the plant during the cold season instead of continuing their migration to warmer climates.
Absolutey! If tropical milkweed isn’t in your native range, it should definitely be replaced with a native species! Or cut back in fall as you said!
Thank you for this video! Amazing information and so detailed; An absolute wealth of knowledge😃💕
Thank you so much!! And thank you for the continued support! 💓
Love this definitely going to add some to our pollinator patch.
Awesome! 🙌
The wasps in my garden don’t allow me to have caterpillars on my plants but I’m still lucky to see so many different bee and butterfly species on my flowers
It’s wild, only something like 2% of Caterpillar eggs laid will made it to the adult stage! I’m not sure if something like the mesh bags used for blueberry bushes might help for protecting monarchs, for example.
I just subscribed. That has to be one of the most (no...the most!) creative and engaging video I have seen on this topic. You obviously obsessed on this. I love the whole concept of Homegrown National Park. Doug Tallamy is one of my gurus. The information currently out there is hugely slanted to the eastern half of the continent, where you are located. So it makes total sense that the content leans heavily on that side of the Mississippi. There is a lot of catching up to do when it comes to comparable info for the western half of the continent. Your work is incredible! I now have to watch all your other videos.
Welcome aboard!! Thank you so much for all the kind words! That’s a great point, I hadn’t thought about that! Even if there is a comparable volume of research in the west, Doug Tallamy has been a conduit for translating that information to the general public, but with the eastern skew. More spokespersons in the west might help! Xerces has been one really valuable resource for regionally balanced information!
this is so cute and informative!
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for this fantastic informative and fun video!
Thank you for watching!
You are awesome! I will refer to this numerous times!! Thank you ❤🦋🐛🐝
Thank you! So glad it might be helpful!! 💕
@@gardenforbirdsOh Honey ( pun intended) I saved this in my bee file for future reference! ❤🐝
Want a funny? Monarchs arriving soon here, any day now. My milkweed are 6 ft tall! They look like rows of corn. So we are ready! Thank you again ❤ Much love
Awesome!! 🙌 “We are ready” is like music to my ears! Brings me much comfort hearing others are making habitat in their own gardens!! 💓
@@gardenforbirdsAre you seeing an monarchs yet??? We have no babies, none! I've seen loads of Tussock moth caterpillars, but no monarchs. Not seen but 3 butterflies. Frustrated!
@@susanparrott5175 I also have just seen a few. I fear for them - their populations are below the level needed for stability, so they could potentially have a population crash really any year now. I'm going to try to get another swatch of milkweed added over the fall and winter - that's about all we can do as individuals - and hold hope they can hang in there! It's hard :(
Loved this video! Very creative.
Thank you so much!
Great video, it was the bees knees.
Haha, thank you!!
Genuinely blown away by this presentation, beautiful work and narration. I’ve got a good number of all of these plants and seeds of these plants in my cart to purchase now on Prairie Moon
That’s incredibly kind 🙏 Awesome! 🙌 They are a dangerous website to visit, they’ve got so much diversity it’s like a candy shop 😅
@@gardenforbirds exactly! Every check my wife asks where the money goes 🤷 🤔 🤤
@@Herculesbiggercousin A charade I too am forced to play 😂
Funny. Informative.
Thank you!
I loved this video! It was very informative, cute, and fun to watch. I am working on creating a permaculture homestead on six acres in North Carolina. I would like to plant a wide variety of native plants, in order to create a self sustaining landscape. I will definitely be subscribing to your channel!
Thanks so much! Yay, that's awesome! You've maybe seen the channel Parkrose Permaculture, I really enjoy Angela's perspectives and learn a lot from her!
@@gardenforbirds Yes, I do watch her channel. I also like Edible acres and Huw Richards.
@gardenforbirds since your last video post have watched your entire library. You are one of my favorite creators on TH-cam. I am wondering your thoughts on Homegrown National Park
Thank you, that’s very kind! I really like what Homegrown National Park is doing, and Doug Tallamy was a huge inspiration for my own personal shift to habitat gardening. I love the approach of connecting people through the HNP, I think it’s inspiring to see other people are out there doing their best toward a common cause!
My woods is losing MANY oaks due to bacterial leaf scortch.
It's devastating for the insect populations and the birds that rely on them to feed their young.
I have much more light, and was wondering what to plant to help my local wildlife. (I'm close to your home state.)
Thanks for the wonderful video.
I was going to do large stands of lupine next year, now I will plant the best kind.
@@NanaWilson-px9ij Aw, that’s tough. I wonder if getting more space between the surviving trees (since you’ve lost some) might actually help prevent further spread. You could consider embracing a savanna style woodland. You can get some incredible biodiversity in a savanna!
thanks for this great video!
Glad it might be useful!
Very cool info!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks ❤
Do you have a website for all these information.
I don’t have a website, but there are some resources linked in the pinned comment!
Was that the dreaded mortality realization inducing century plant? Where you realize you won't live to see it flower, and then you see some other ones flower and it's so underwhelming and exaggeratingly tall at the same time.
This is so cool! I just looked up lupine on Prairie moon today! They flat out mention this same thing in the information on the sundial lupine page. Trying to decide what companion flower to plant with it??? 🤔
@@75shadystorm Actually, I learned this about lupine from an email Prairie Moon Nursery had sent out! On their page for Sundial lupine they say “You can find lupine in oak savannas, sand prairies, and pine barrens plant communities.” So researching those plant communities might be helpful to find companion plants!
@gardenforbirds well I was wanting to buy another flower that the blue butterflies would enjoy after they hatch. Or, possibly another flower that blooms after lupine is done. What do you think?
Last spring I purchased 18 different flower seed packets from them and spotted bee balm was not one of them. Would that be a good choice?
This website describes some additional plants they’ve been observed to like. They do list bee balm! “ Karner blue butterflies prefer a balance of open and closed canopy habitats. Adults feed on nectar from a wide variety of flowers, while the larva has only one known food source, wild lupine. Wild lupine thrives best in sandy soils in oak savannas and barren sandy areas. Karner blue butterflies use a variety of native flowering plants that provide nectar, including beebalm, cinquefoil, blackberry, leadplant, milkweeds, gayfeather, and black-eyed Susans.”
landpotential.org/habitat-hub/karner-blue-butterfly/
I can't see lupin and not think of Monte Python 😅
Haha! Hadn’t seen that one before!
No it’s me! I’m the nerd 🤓
Haha, yay! That's a good thing! 😅
this is great if you live in the northeast but very little relevant information to those living in the western half of the country. maybe warn viewers about this
I actually also noticed the bias to the east as I was reviewing the final edit - it’s made me realize that the results for some of my web searches are likely biased based on my location and my personal search history, which definitely leans to the east for my own gardening queries! (It’s good to be aware for the future so I can include more targeted searches!) Hopefully some of the websites linked in the pinned comment might be helpful - About half of them are generic to region, and I find them very useful tools for garden research!
One plant, trumpet vines. More kinds of bees than one can shake a stick at. And they use the wax off of leaves
Interesting! Is it mostly honeybees who use the wax?
I love lupins but unfortunately, so do the deer.
I hear you on that - I've had to get pretty creative this year to battle a family of hungry groundhogs!
Make sure you get your token virtue signal in
more channels are covering topics like this one, so hopefully everyone can find a channel that works for them ;)
? Did I miss something? I only noticed incredible content and creativity.
"Your Life or Your Lupins!" th-cam.com/video/pRBtgrNo-58/w-d-xo.html
PS just joshing, your nature videos are fantastic (and funny too)
😂 I’d never seen that bit before posting this video - too funny!