Heather Holm

@DustinDemmer I’ve wondered about this. I’ve been overseeding cool season Elymus in my garden for the last several years for this very reason.

Something I hadn't considered--does mixing grasses & sedges in a native flower garden reduce deer or rabbit browsing? Does planting density matter too? It'd make a good research project--plots with flowers alone, plots with flowers+grasses and sedges, ... any takers? :)

@BerondaM @Engaging Nice to meet you, @BerondaM ! I enjoyed you prestation as well.

@YourNatureBoy @DLNarango Our list includes short native perennials, sedges, and grasses. We recommend small (cell pack) sized plants to limit any damage to tree roots, and not planting within 18” of a tree trunk.

@BeesNativePlant @DLNarango Should there be different lists for Soft Landing plants? I.e. Shallow roots for close to the tree, short plants for formal settings, durable plants that can survive traffic, etc.?

My latest storymap features Soft Landings, a concept developed by Leslie Pilgrim and me. This concept builds upon @DLNarango's research on leps and host plants. Soft Landings are diverse native plantings under the dripline of keystone native trees. Link: arcg.is/1Lvry

@milesand_miles Helophilus sp.

@BeesNativePlant My daughter rescued this one from inside a cos lettuce…we were wondering what it could be🤔🌻

@cindylang17 I always ask, which bees?

@Carignan10 Nice!

Fantastic storymap by @BeesNativePlant on creating "soft landings" of native vegetation & leaf layer under keystone trees to support butterflies, moths, bees, fireflies and many other wildlife species in our gardens. storymaps.com/stories/7942b5… @NWF @Garden4Wildlife

@CatrinEinhorn And so happy to be alongside rockstars @BeesNativePlant and @SaveWildBees Go team bees!

Yesterday, cellophane #bee (Colletes inaequalis) females perched at their nest entrances in morning, waiting for temps to warm up. Males patrolling nest aggregation. In afternoon, females visited pussy willow. Nest provisioning iminent after today's rainy weather subsides.

Join CWF April 11th as Heather Holm, highly-respected researcher and award-winning author, shares her discoveries and beautiful photography of our native wasps. 🐝 Register here: ow.ly/T2aj50Nt5Q3

"It turns out I’ve been filling my yard with a mix of ecological junk food and horticultural terrorists." 😆 wapo.st/3KmL8rC

@ajfaff Cool! 😎

@BeesNativePlant Thank you for the informative article and photos. I've watched the Unequal Cellophane Bees here in Rhode Island for a few weeks. They have the exact criteria you described. The willows started blooming in about the same time frame as well.

My latest storymap titled Signs of Spring, features the unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis). Learn more about the natural history of this early spring solitary bee and the native plants it depends on: arcg.is/1K0v4y #bees #pollinators #nativeplants

@redtailsunset Thanks, Lindsey!

@BeesNativePlant Beautiful as always!! Thx for sharing 🐝 💛

Latest video on my YouTube channel features the unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis). This bee species is active in early spring—as early as the end of March in MN. Watch the video to learn more about this bee's natural history: youtube.com/watch?v=mf9BbN… #bees #pollinators

My latest video features the fraternal potter wasp (Eumenes fraternus), the amazing architect of jug-shaped mud nests! youtube.com/watch?v=-BDMUU… #wasps #wasplove

@BRVogt 😂

This house has "flawless landscaping" according to the listing.

@Radicle110 @SaveWildBees A vespid but this one is Vespula. Social wasp fact sheets coming soon :)

@BeesNativePlant @SaveWildBees These are fabulous, Heather! I now have good reason to think this is Ancistrocerus adiabatus enjoying some goldenrod today.

I have been working on some new flower-associated wasp fact sheets for common species occurring in central and eastern North America! Several are now available to download from my author website here: pollinatorsnativeplants.com/plant-lists--p… More to come when time permits 🙂 #wasps #WaspLove