Contact us at: ProPollinators@gmail.com
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Protect Our Pollinators is a proud Partner of the Pollinator Pathway Northeast and Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership and proud supporter of the Homegrown National Park and Eco59 seed collective.
Lights Out CT
for Bird Migration
August 15 thru November 15
11 PM to 6 AM
Pledge to turn off the lights.
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Our Mission
Let's embrace a simpler, more earth-friendly fall cleanup routine that doesn't interrupt the natural process of growth, decay and renewal - where an untidy garden sustains wildlife and fallen leaves are turned into compost.
To order, mail your donation to:
Protect Our Pollinators
12 Whippoorwill Hill Road
Newtown CT 06470
Suggested donation is $20.
- to save our endangered pollinators through education and action.
IMPORTANCE OF SOFT LANDINGS
Planting intentional soft landings (plants not mulch)
under keystone trees builds healthy soil,
provides food for songbirds and pollinators,
sequesters more carbon than turf grass,
and reduces time spent mowing.
Keystone Plants
Special Relationships with Wildlife
Native plants are native trees, shrubs, flowering perennials and grasses that are indigenous to a particular region (or ecoregion).
Many of these natives are considered Keystone Plants because they
are required for the survival of specific pollinators and caterpillars.
Just as a keystone of an archway holds all the other stones in place
to secure the structure's integrity, Keystone Plants ensure healthy native plant communities. They are critical to the food web and necessary for many wildlife species to complete their life cycle.
Nature Loves an Untidy Garden
Protect Our Pollinators is a nonprofit organization devoted to the conservation of pollinators
and their habitats.
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 calledNeonicontinoids (Neo-nics)are lethal to
bees and other pollinators. And the most commonly used herbicide, Roundupis wiping
out milkweed and other wildflowers essential for native bee pollinators and butterflies.
Roundup additivesare 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.