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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nativepollinators, aggregated by home.social.

  1. [PDF] How To Construct a Study, All Wood #MasonBee House

    by Don Harper

    "The construction method described below is based on a presentation made by Lawrence County Master Gardener Dave Hughes in 2007. The construction process can obviously be modified, depending on the availability of power
    tools and the preference for using one piece of 4x6 wood instead of two pieces of 2x6. Construction, once you are
    familiar with the process, requires about a day. Waiting for glue to dry is the only part of the process that really slows
    down construction.

    "Given the diminution of populations of honeybees due to colony collapse disorder, it is hoped that everyone with a
    garden will make at least one of these houses available for mason bees in which to lay eggs. This will lead to the next generation of bees, and over time increase the population of these #NativePollinators."

    Learn more:
    mendotrails.org/wp-content/upl

    #SolarPunkSunday #DIYBeeHouses #Pollinators #BeeNesting #BeeHouses #BeeHousePlans

  2. #MOFGA - #PlantCorridors

    By Heather McCargo, Photos by Jean English, Winter 2014-2015

    "#NativePlant corridors attract #pollinators and #wildlife to your farm by stretching across your property to connect your piece of #NativeHabitat to nearby #meadows, #wetlands or #woodlands. This creates a much larger area for #NativePollinators to #forage, raise young and migrate. Corridors may run along a road, between fields, in a #swale or on the edge of a #forest, connecting habitats off the property and returning native plants to the parts of the farm not suitable for traditional crops.

    This article describes two approaches to creating native habitat corridors: changing #mowing habits to favor native species, and planting woody and herbaceous combinations to increase native plant diversity on the farm.

    Populations of all native species are in decline across the state. Our human footprint is taking its toll on wild creatures, including pollinators such as #bees and #butterflies that are so important on the farm for crop pollination. Native plant species each share an evolutionary history with indigenous insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, bacteria and fungi. When native plants are gone, many of these creatures go too, leading to a collapse of ecosystem function. Farmers benefit from the services provided by a healthy ecosystem, such as groundwater recharge; clean surface streams and ponds; pollination; a diversity of birds, spiders and amphibians to eat many insects including crop pests; and beneficial soil fungi and bacteria. Fortunately, when native plants are reintroduced into a landscape, many of these other creatures return.

    As farmers and landowners, we can bring native plants, and the attendant diversity, back into the Maine landscape in a way that works with a farmer’s busy schedule. Many native plants thrive in dry, wet and shady areas that are poor sites for traditional farm crops."

    Learn more:
    mofga.org/resources/pollinator

    #SolarPunkSunday #GardeningForPollinators #NativePlantCorridors #Gardening #Farming #Homesteading #Nature #NatureConservation #NatureRestoration #Maine

  3. Bombus on the tall sunflower. I see a lot of pollen coming off of it too with all the yellow specks on the leaf below it.

    #pollinators #FlowerWithBee #bombus #bee #bumblebee #YellowFlowers #BloomScrollingWithBee #NativePollinators

  4. I was trying to get a photo of the little bees after I took photos of this big bumble bee but wasn't successful but I see I got a good picture of one with the bumblebee. I think it's a Ligated Furrow Bee minus it's usual coating of pollen but it has a little bit stuck to it. The big ones is a Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis I think.

    #pollinators #bees #FurrowBee #BumbleBee #NativePollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #insects #July7 #PinkFlowers #BeeBalm #bombus

  5. There's some catnip next to my chair on the rocks and the bees are still there sometimes when I'm sitting if it's not too late in the evening. I got a photo of bombus huntii but I saw bombus vagans too. Another masked hunter assassin bug was seen on the wall just a bit ago *points over there*. It was relocated to outdoors.

    #insects #NativePollinators #bees #bombus #BombusHuntii #Bee #bumblebee #AssassinBug #ReduviusPersonatus

  6. Since the bald-faced hornets were getting a bad rap due to an encounter with a popular Mastodon person yesterday I thought I'd share my encounter with this one this morning before picking berries.

    I slung my picking basket over a ring fixture on a post and noticed the wasp gathering wood pulp between the straps and not even flinching. I guess I'm in their good guy database. ;)

    #wasp #BaldFacedHornet #DolichovespulaMaculata #insects #yellowjacket #NativeInsects #NativePollinators #pollinators

  7. I rescued a bumble bee that was stuck in the chicken coop. Looks like a Western Bumble Bee, Bombus occidentalis. I also saw 4 or maybe 5 Ashy Digger bees in one clove currant bush. I'm not sure I ever saw more than one at once last year.

    #NativePollinators #bees #BumbleBee #pollinators #BombusOccidentalis #AshyDiggerBee #bombus #bee #bumblebee #April17

  8. Syrphus ribesii hoverfly decided to land on my finger when I was going to try to take a picture of bees on the clove currant.

    I one handed took photos and focus on the hoverfly with the phone, which somehow made the phone start taking photos as fast as it could, which I got stopped after about 120 photos, and I of course kept the camera aimed towards the currant bush while not disturbing the hoverfly because that was important apparently.

    #NativePollinators #hoverfly #NativeInsects

  9. I identified the super fast bee and got more photos because the clove currants kept it busy longer. It's a Habropoda cineraria which is a type of digger bee. Other sitings on bugguide.net are from the region.

    #NativeInsects #NativePlants #NativePollinators #bees

  10. Syrphus ribesii hoverfly resting on a wax currant leaf, and some closeups of the clove currant and service berry flowers.

    #NativePollinators #NativeInsects #BloomScrollingWithInsect #insects #NativePlants