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LANDSCAPING TO ATTRACT WILDLIFE Vincent Mannino, County Extension Director – Fort Bend What Do You Want to Attract? Birds Animals Insects Selecting Plant Species Important to Wildlife Food Cover Perches Nesting or Denning Shade ~ Attracting Animals ~ Animals feed on leaves, twigs & fruit. Twigs: oaks, hollies, hawthorns, rose, hackberry Leaves: hollies, privet, honeysuckle, muscadine Fruit: plums, hawthorns, pecans, acorns, dewberries, rabbit eye blueberries, persimmon, holly fruit, pyracantha Twigs & Leaves Fruit More Fruit… ~ Attracting Birds ~ Birds Feed on Fruits, Seeds & Insects that Feed on Fruits and Seeds. Fruit producers: mayhaws, plums, dewberries, blackberries, pawpaws, persimmons, black cherry/laurels, hollies, pyracantha Seed producers: pecan, hickory, walnut, acorns, hackberry, poison ivy, waxmyrtle, persimmons, plums Insects: include weevils, beetles, & webworms Fruit Producers Seed Producers Insects Attracted for Food ~ Attracting Beneficial Insects ~ Beneficial Insects That Feed on Flowers Include: Moths - mostly nocturnal, somber colors, various types of antennae, wings horizontal, straight stylet, fast flyers. Butterflies - mostly daytime, brightly colored, knobbed antennae, wings mostly vertical, curled stylet, slow flyers. Bees & Wasps - off all types, all are beneficial Resources Moths & Butterflies Plants to Attract Moths & Butterflies Any Long, Tubular Flower Will Attract Moths & Butterflies. Bees & Wasps ~ Plants to Attract Bees & Wasps ~ Most Any Flower Will Attract Bees and Wasps Questions?? Written by: Vincent Mannino County Extension Director Fort Bend County
