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Re: pollinators
Ron Lane wrote:
>
> Last summer, while watching butterflies in the garden with my sons, one of
> them commented on a small irridescent green bee on one of the flowers. We
> then spent the next 1 hour+ looking closely at the different flowers and
> noticing what types of insects came to which blooms (and then periodically
> through the rest of the summer). We watched one 3/8" bee guard one set of
> blooms from all other pollinators for 20+ minutes before he tired and left.
> Some flowers that I was considering removing (didn't attract butterflies)
> had swarms of very small sweat bees crawling all over them (they're now
> safe).
>
> This led me to re-read (and my sons to read) the Xerces Society newsletter
> "Wings" which had several articles on pollinator relationships and then
> purchasing and reading the book "The Forgotten Pollinators".....
Thanx for such a great topic and for sharing your information and
experiece. I am interested in grasses and was wondering if any of the
pollinators you observed were attracted to any early bloomers.
Thank you
Shanti Pierce
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