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Bees pollinating a sunflower head. Sunflowers have been proven to be excellent plants to attract beneficial insects, including pollinators. Helianthus spp. are a nectar producing flowering plant that attract pollinators and parasitoids which reduce the pest populations in nearby crop vegetation.
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
Honey bees pollinate many plant species that are not native to their natural habitat but are often inefficient pollinators of such plants; if they are visiting ten different species of flower, only a tenth of the pollen they carry may be the right species. Other bees tend to favor one species at a time, therefore do most of the actual pollination.
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Attracting birds to your garden requires thinking about their food, water, and nesting needs. ... like solitary bees, live inside hollowed-out stems," adds Dillon. ... "Black-oil sunflower is an ...
Native bees nest beneath or within these plants or use elements of the plants for their nests. [3] Consequently, they are thought to be an important species for attracting bees for pollination in the area. [3] Prairie dock is one of the few species that successfully persists on land that has been converted from prairie to railway. [5]
Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) nectaring at daisy (Argyranthemum)Pollination syndromes are suites of flower traits that have evolved in response to natural selection imposed by different pollen vectors, which can be abiotic (wind and water) or biotic, such as birds, bees, flies, and so forth through a process called pollinator-mediated selection.
Sunshine Blue II is a relatively new selection of Caryopteris incana and was hybridized by famed plantsmen Tim Wood, aka the Plant Hunter.