1. avoiding tilling and soil disturbance | |
2. minimizing mulching, leaving areas of bare soil | |
3.removing branches, downed logs | |
4. increasing the size of lawns | |
5.providing flowering plants all season | |
6. plant a diversity of native plants with various flower forms | |
7. mowing/spraying larval host plants (often weeds) | |
8.
removing invasive plant species |
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9.using
insecticides, particularly systemic ones |
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10. eliminating weedy goldenrods |
Answers:
1. good-- avoids destroying ground nesters
2. good-- provides sites for ground
nesters-- about 70% of bees
3. bad-- removes places for cavity nesters
4. bad--no flowers to pollinate, no bare soil for nesting
5. good--food resources all season
6. good--provides for different types of pollinators
7. bad--learn which plants larvae need,
otherwise no pollinators will be produced
8. good--invasives displace native plants which native pollinators need for food
9. bad-- systemic ones remain in the plant
and can poison pollinators; if spraying, do so when plants aren't in
flower or pollinators present
10. bad-- there are many species, and most
are among the top host plants for the most number of beneficial insects
and pollinators