Download The Buzz About Pollinators

The Buzz About Pollinators
19 YEARS OF TRIAL AND ERROR
EDGES
• These areas (EDGES) are a valuable part
of your property because they have
amazing environmental potential, will
increase your importance within your
community, your value to your
employer and save some budget dollars
along the way.
THE BEGINNING
NO MOW AREAS
DROUGHT GRASSES DOMINATE
Dog-Bane invading grass area
Value to Beneficial Insects:
Supports Conservation Biological Control (A plant that attracts predatory or parasitoid
insects that prey upon pest insects.)
Thistle----getting really interesting!!!!
MILKWEED
Ugly!!!!!
The start of our butterfly campaign.
The reason for letting our “weeds thrive”
Small Monarch Caterpillar
About ready.
They grow pretty fast.
Newly hatched with other chrysalis's
Drying its wings
If you see one on milk weed it probably is a female.
The females are lacking black scent glans on there wings which makes it
easy to identify the sexes.
Showing off Caterpillar
Tagged Monarch
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Creating New Edges
Summer
Fall
First season. Partridge pea—native huge amounts of bees.
Edges, late summer, 15 years old.
Great habitat for pollinators
Spice bush caterpillar
Look for rolled leaves --- resembles bird poop when young!!!
Fake eyes----cool looking Caterpillar
Black Swallowtail Caterpillars on Fennel.
Tomato Hornworm
Insect parasitoid--Braconid wasp
Widespread across the county and important parasite of tobacco and tomato hornworms
Mr. John Lampkin
Citizen Scientist: Our lepidopterist.
AKA: Photographer, Piano Teacher-Author-Cross word puzzle maker.
Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies
Blue Birds,
Bats
Any Idea?
Praying Mantis Eggs
Painted Lady
Host Plant: More than 100 host plants have been noted; favorites include thistles
(Asteraceae), hollyhock and mallow (Malvaceae), and various legumes (Fabaceae).
Spicebush Swallowtail
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin), sassafras trees (Sassafras albidum); perhaps prickly ash
(Zanthoxylum americanum), tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), sweetbay (Magnolia
virginiana), camphor (Cinnamomum camphora), and redbay (Persea borbonia).
Sachem
Host plant: Grasses including Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), crabgrass (Digitaria),
St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum), and goosegrass (Eleusine).
Great Spangled Fritillary
Host Plants:
Various violet species (Viola).
Common Buckeye
Plants from the snapdragon family including snapdragon (Antirrhinum)
and toadflax (Linaria); the plantain family including plantains (Plantago);
and the acanthus family including ruellia (Ruellia nodiflora).
Pearl Crescent: Several species of smooth-leaved true asters including Aster
pilosus, A. texanus, and A. laevis.
Google is my best friend
Monarch Watch.org
NABA.org
Thank you
Your edges will now
become important areas
on your course. Have
some fun. You have vast
opportunities to
contribute to your
ecosystem, promote Golf,
our industry and yourself.