Why Your Pollinator Garden NEEDS Specialist Host Plants! 

Your pollinator garden isn’t complete without planting for SPECIALIST pollinators! E.O. Wilson on “The Little Things That Run The World”: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ihMipJAvLRY.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/

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.

the editing is great and the content is valuable, what a hidden gem of a channel!!

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 ...

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.

Yea! I so look forward to your videos!!! I love , love , love them! I learn soo much from them and they are fun and humorous. Thank you for the wonderful videos! :)

Fascinating and very well put together. Love the info in this one. And how cute are these little pollinators!

So creative and packed full of valuable information! Impressive 👏

Your videos and editing are top-notch!

You’re a rockstar. Amazing work! 🐝🐝🐝

(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.

Thank you for this video! Amazing information and so detailed; An absolute wealth of knowledge😃💕

Love this definitely going to add some to our pollinator patch.

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

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.

this is so cute and informative!

Thanks for this fantastic informative and fun video!

You are awesome! I will refer to this numerous times!! Thank you ❤🦋🐛🐝

Loved this video! Very creative.

Great video, it was the bees knees.

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

Funny. Informative.

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!

@gardenforbirds since your last video post have watched your entire library. You are one of my favorite creators on RU-vid. I am wondering your thoughts on Homegrown National Park

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.

thanks for this great video!

Very cool info!

Thanks ❤ Do you have a website for all these information.

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??? 🤔

I can't see lupin and not think of Monte Python 😅

No it’s me! I’m the nerd 🤓

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

One plant, trumpet vines. More kinds of bees than one can shake a stick at. And they use the wax off of leaves

I love lupins but unfortunately, so do the deer.

Make sure you get your token virtue signal in

"Your Life or Your Lupins!" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pRBtgrNo-58.html PS just joshing, your nature videos are fantastic (and funny too)