Native Plants and Pollinators, Forever Intertwined - Wildlife for Lunch - March 2017

This presentation briefly introduces the participants to habitat requirements for pollinators, especially native bumblebees, European honeybees and Monarch butterflies. Beneficial plants are showcased that are important pollen and nectaring producers during spring, summer and fall. The importance of planting and managing for a diversity of flowering plants is emphasized. This presentation aims to to show the importance of pollinators to humans and to land managers, be they livestock producers or wildlife managers. Many times we talk about managing “habitat” by controlling grazing or wildlife numbers but it goes deeper, we must manage to have healthy pollinators to ensure that we have flowering forbs and woody species. Without the pollinators, the future of agriculture and wildlife is in peril.

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