Top 10 garden plants for specialist bees · 1) Bellflowers (Campanula species) · 2) Yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) · 3) Willows (Salix species) · 4) ...

28 мар. 2022 г. · But the most important thing you can do for specialist bees is grow the flowers they need – native plants sourced locally.

This website compiles associations among native pollen specialist bees and native host plants from the Eastern United States.

30 мая 2015 г. · Trees and shrubs important to specialist bees include Willow, (Salix), with eight species of specialists; redbud, (Cercis candensis); dogwoods, ...

Specialist bees rely upon just a handful of native plant species, with some bee species dependent upon a single plant species.

Summer- and autumn-blooming perennial plants in this family such as black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), sunflower (Helianthus), goldenrod (Solidago, Euthamia, ...

9 мар. 2023 г. · Common (and uncommon) specialist bees can thrive in pesticide-free, native plant-rich urban and suburban gardens when the host plants are present.

Consider growing any of these native plants to invite even more specialist bees to the garden: • Blueberry, Vaccinium spp. • Dogwood trees or shrubs, Cornus spp ...

Bees, our most important pollinator, are either generalists or specialists. Generalists, as the name implies, visit a variety of plants to gather pollen.

Specialist Bees · Willows · Blueberries · Dogwoods · He-Huckleberry · Loosestrifes · Groundcherries · Pickerelweed · Bellflowers.