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Pollinator friendly gardens. Suggested Plants  Native perennial flowering plants  Herbs  Fruit trees or flowering trees  Annual weeds and flowers.

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1 Pollinator friendly gardens

2 Suggested Plants  Native perennial flowering plants  Herbs  Fruit trees or flowering trees  Annual weeds and flowers  Try to arrange for a series of blooms from early spring to late fall.

3 Types of Pollinators  Bats  Butterflies  Birds  Moths  Beetles  Ants  Wasps  Flies  Bees

4 Common Colorado Butterflies Colorado Hairstreak Swallowtail Silver Blue Giant Painted Lady

5 Common Colorado Moths Cabbage MothSphinx Moth Yucca Moth

6 Bees, Flies, Wasps Bees  Round  4 wing  Eyes on side  Collect pollen in pollen baskets or hair on legs or abdomen Flies  Flat  2 wings  Eyes in front  Not hairy, don't collect pollen Wasps  Cinched waist  4 wings  Eyes on side  Not hairy  Striped

7 Bees  Bees are a species-rich group with over 19,500 described species  In America north of Mexico, there are approximately 3,500 described bee species  There are approximately 1000 species of bees in Colorado.  The number of described species, however, is only a portion of the actual total, as many additional undescribed species are known to exist.

8 Bees Solitary Bees Carpenter Bees Mason Bees Sweat Bees Leafcutter Bees Hive Bees Honey Bees Bumblebees

9 Underground vs Cavity Nesting Bees  30% of native bees live in cavities  Mason bees, leafcutter bees, carpenter bees  70% of native bees live under the ground  Bumblebees, sweat bees, cellophane bees

10 Mason Bee Life Cycle

11 Insect Houses

12 Cavity Nesting Bee House  Protect against wet weather  The bee house must be positioned in full sun, facing south east or south  Place at least a yard off the ground  There must be no vegetation in front of it obscuring the entrances to the tunnels.  Provide a variety of diameter tubes for a variety of species, use hollow stems and bamboo reeds.

13 Recommended Books  Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlhert  The Reason for Flower by Ruth Heller  The Clover and the Bee by Anne Ophelia Dowden

14 Recommended Resources  Audubon Insect and Spider Ap  Colorado Plateau Pollinators — http://pollinator.org/PDFs/ColoradoPlateau.rx2.pdf http://pollinator.org/PDFs/ColoradoPlateau.rx2.pdf  Xerces Society for Insect Preservation — http://www.xerces.orghttp://www.xerces.org  Citizen based science project — http://beesneeds.colorado.edu/http://beesneeds.colorado.edu/  Source for mason bee tubes — http://www.compostmania.com/Orchard-Mason-Bee-Nesting- Replacement-Tubes http://www.compostmania.com/Orchard-Mason-Bee-Nesting- Replacement-Tubes  Neonic pesticide free nursery — Harlequin's Garden Nursery in Boulder www.HarlequinsGardens.comwww.HarlequinsGardens.com


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