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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Sustainable partnership between ornamental plants and honeybees

Sustainable partnership between ornamental plants and honeybees

Abdel-Raheem, Mohamed
Abd Al-Jabbar Ali, Bayader
J. Kadhim, Fadhil

Paperback

Botany & Horticulture

ISBN10: 6202438738
ISBN13: 9786202438735
Publisher: Noor Publishing
Published: Sep 24 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gardening for pollinators and other flower-visiting insects, where ornamental landscaping plants are added to provide habitats and foraging resources, may provide substantial benefits to declining insect populations. However, plant recommendations often lack empirical grounding or are limited geographically. Here, we created a pollinator garden, replicated across two sites, that contained 25 ornamental landscape plants that were either native or non-native to mid-Atlantic states and perennial or annual. Our objective was to determine the plants that would bring insect abundance and diversity to gardens. We surveyed the number and taxonomy of insects visiting the plants for two summers. We found a significant effect of plant species on both the abundance and diversity of flower-visiting insects. Insects were 42 times more abundant on our most visited plant (black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia fulgida) versus our least visited plant (petunia, Petunia sp.).

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