SAVE THE DATE for Native Plant Sales and Openings
Aspetuck Land Trust - Spring Plant Sale - Pre-ordering begins on April 12. www.aspetucklandtrust.org
Earth Tones Native Plant Nursery, Woodbury.
Opening: Sat. April 20, 9-4 and Sun. April 21, 10-3. www.earthtonesnatives.com
Tiny Meadow Farm, Danbury.
Spring Plant Sale - Pre-order now for May pickup. https://tinymeadowfarm.com
Urbanscapes Native Plant Nursery, New Haven.
Opening on Sat. April 20. https://menunkatuck.org
The Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College, plant sale April 27, 2024.
To order, mail your donation to:
Protect Our Pollinators
12 Whippoorwill Hill Road
Newtown CT 06470
Suggested donation is $20.
Neonics, the New DDT
What you need to know about Pesticides harming Connecticut's Birds, Bees, Wildlife and People.
- CT Audubon.
- to save our endangered pollinators through education and action.
Protect Our Pollinators is a nonprofit organization devoted
to the conservation of pollinators and their habitats.
Our Mission
Contact us at: ProPollinators@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/protectourpollinators
Protect Our Pollinators is a proud Partner of the Pollinator Pathway Northeast and Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership and support of the Homegrown National Park and Eco59 seed collective.
Connecting open spaces and private lands to provide
health habitat for pollinators, beneficial insects, birds and other wildlife.
Happy Birthday, Jane!
"Each one of us makes a difference. We cannot live through a single day without making an impact on the world around us - and we have a choice as to what sort of difference we make."
- Jane Goodall
How Our Beneficial Insects Spend the Winter
During the cold winter months, many insects make themselves at home in your backyard. How they do this depends upon the insect. Insects do have mechanisms that help them survive the cold. And you may ask, don't insects like butterflies migrate south in winter?
You may be surprised to learn, most do not.
Want to Help our Struggling Pollinators?
1) Convert 10% of your lawn to pollinator habitat. There are more than 40 million acres of lawn or turfgrass in the U.S. alone. This change would add four million acres for bees, butterflies, and birds.
2) Replace some of your non-native ornamental plants with native plants. Many different kinds of beneficial insects rely on native plants as food or for nesting sites. These insects are food for birds and other wildlife. Declines in backyard birds are linked to an increase in the number of non-native plants.
3) There is no need to use Pesticides on a lawn or garden. Pesticides, especially insecticides, kill bees and other pollinators and beneficial insects that are meant to control pests. Systemic pesticides called Neonicontinoids (Neo-nics) are lethal to bees and other pollinators. And the most commonly used herbicide, Roundup is wiping out milkweed and other wildflowers essential for native bee pollinators and butterflies. Roundup additives are toxic to Bumblebees.
4) Turn off the lights. Lights harm night-flying insects. Moths are a night-time pollinator and are food for birds and other wildlife. Attracted by the light, they become exhausted and die. Fireflies, in their immature stage, are important for pest control. Lights disturb these night-flyers seeking mates to reproduce. By adding motion sensors and using yellow LED lights will preserve these important insects.