WHO KNEW You Can Create Biodiversity in Your Backyard by Planting Native Plants and Removing Invasive Ones?
Here are some ideas of what you can do.
WHO KNEW Pollinator Gardens Would Be So Important to Us All?
According to the USDA, virtually all the world’s seed plants need to be pollinated. “Without pollinators, the human race and all of earth’s terrestrial ecosystems would not survive.”
WHO KNEW Simple Changes in Lawn Care Produce Fascinating Results?
We know that in the US, roughly 80% of us live in urban areas and our lawns take up a lot of space. Typical lawn care can contribute to greenhouse gasses and pollute runoff from rain or snow. We also know that because of pesticide and herbicide use on lawns native bees are in decline in urban areas, and few flowering plants are found. However, a few simple changes in the way we care for lawns can bring back pollinators and contribute to biodiversity in our own lawn!
WHO KNEW that We Can Help Reverse the Decline of Our Pollinators?
Some of us remember when car windshields were regularly coated with masses of dead bugs. It isn’t that improved car design led to fewer squished bugs; there really were many more bugs back then. In the wake of this loss, populations of birds, which need insect larvae to feed their young, and other creatures have declined too. So what do we do?
WHO KNEW How Important Our Native Insects are to a Healthy Environment?
Pollination is the sex act for flowering plants. Plants need insects to help them reproduce.
Photo: Black swallowtail on NY ironweed.debbi’s roos.jpg
WHO KNEW?
WHO KNEW? from Sustainable Hanover brings you short, timely info on actions you can take to make a difference.