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Tag: attracting pollinators

Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'
June 11June 23 Donna L. Long

Penstemons (Attracting Pollinators with Native Plants)

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May 14June 23 Donna L. Long

Spring Blooming Plants to Attract Bumble Bees

Trout Lilies Flowers in Bloom in Early Spring. Photo by Donna L. Long.
March 19June 23 Donna L. Long

Spring Ephemerals – Early Bloomers for Your Backyard Habitat

flat flower heads Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)
May 8June 23 Donna L. Long

Golden Alexanders: Pollinator Magnet, Black Swallowtail Host Plant

goldenrod and insects: Bumblebee on Goldenrod
August 15June 23 Donna L. Long

Attracting Pollinators with the Goldenrods

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus). Swallowtail butterfly family. Photo by Donna L. Long.
July 4April 22 Donna L. Long

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly: How to Identify and Find Them

Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
August 24June 23 Donna L. Long

Summer Blooming Native Flowers

Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa Atalanta) sipping salts from human skin.
June 29December 21 Donna L. Long

Red Admiral Butterfly and Flowers That Attract Them.

Backlight Fall New England Aster
September 29June 23 Donna L. Long

New England Asters, a Pollinator Magnet for Your Garden.

Bee sipping nectar from a Sienna
April 7June 23 Donna L. Long

Pollinator Syndromes: How to Predict Which Flowers Insects Will Like

Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) Butterfly. Lycaenidae Butterfly Family). By Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth! [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
June 9December 12 Donna L. Long

Observing Butterflies At Home and Far Away

Aster and Large Carpenter Bee (Xylcopa spp.) onn a New England Aster (Symphyotricum novae-angliae) blossom in my garden.
October 31June 23 Donna L. Long

New England Asters are a Buffet for Pollinators

A sunflower (Helianthus spp.) in my garden illuminated by the sun. Photo by Donna L. Long.
October 3June 25 Donna L. Long

Fall Sunflowers, Bees, Flies and Pollination

Eastern Tailed-Blue (Everes comyntas) - Lycaenidae Family. Photo from Wikimedia Public Domain.
September 2September 24 Donna L. Long

Gossamer Butterfly Family (Lycaenidae)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus). Swallowtail butterfly family. Photo by Donna L. Long.
August 25May 28 Donna L. Long

The Swallowtail Butterfly Family

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