Pollinator-Friendly Plants for Restoration
March 10 10:00 - 11:00 MST
Presented by Justin Runyon, Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Research Entomologist
Pollinators
are essential to the survival and health of natural ecosystems but are
declining worldwide. Because of this, there is urgent need to restore
pollinators and the services they provide. One way to address this need
is to use pollinator-friendly plants in revegetation projects
(roadsides, fire rehabilitation, etc.), but land managers lack
information about which plants are best for pollinators. RMRS and
partners at Montana State University are assessing the
pollinator-friendliness of native plant species that are available for
revegetation in Montana to produce a guide identifying the best species
mixes to support the greatest number of species and abundance of
pollinators. We found that plant species vary widely in the abundance,
diversity, and community of pollinator species that each attract.
However, several plant species are superstars that are visited by most
pollinator species across a diversity of habitats. These focal-plant
species can form a backbone in seed mixes to successfully restore
diverse and stable plant and pollinator communities.
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