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.

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.

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