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Planning for Pollinators this Fall | Everyday Environment

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Thu, 10/14/2021 - 12:00

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Fall Gardening for Pollinators

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Blog Posts (24)

Celebrate the colors of fall with autumn flowers

Pollinators and Roadways

Roadside plantings of pollinator habitat can present some risk of insect mortality from passing traffic, but the benefits outweigh the risks. Photo Credit: Jeff Kohmstedt, Prairie Rivers Network

Zinnias

Zinnias are spectacular annuals that produce abundant blooms throughout the season.

Aphids on Milkweed

Common milkweed in bloom

More than monarchs - What are those bugs on my milkweed?

More than monarchs - What are those bugs on my milkweed? milkweed bugs on seed pod of butterfly milkweed.

Celebrate Pollinator Week by Growing Native Plants

Two-spotted bumble bee on a spirea flower

Celebrate National Pollinator Week!

Monarch on a flower

Perennial plant of the year: Calamint

calamint and Echinacea

Spring brings spring beauties to the landscape

Spring brings spring beauties to the landscape - a clump of blooming spring beauty plants in turf

How not to retire when you retire - join the Master Naturalists

How to create butterfly habitat in your garden

Gray hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus) feeding on a Coreopsis flower. Flower has bright yellow petals with a dark red center

Spring Garden Cleanup

Standing dead stems are important overwintering habitat that should not be removed from the garden until insects emerge later in spring.

Master Naturalist Profile: “The Butterfly Lady”

Master Naturalist, Rhonda Brady on school bus full of kids

Stop signs for home landscaping

sphynx moth

Sedum is a reliable fall food source for foraging butterflies

butterflies on sedum by Candace Hart

Charles Darwin and Orchids

The Monarch Butterfly

National Pollinator Week

Pawpaw

Fall Garden Cleanup and Wildlife

Goldenrods for Landscaping

Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’ is a cultivar of our native wrinkle-leaved goldenrod that provides a spectacular display of fireworks-like flowers for up to 2 months in late summer and fall.

A different fall-blooming beauty

aster, purple with yellow centers. credit: pixabay.

Fall planted bulbs welcome bees with early spring bloomers

Mowing for Monarchs

orange and black monarch butterfly perched on milkweed plant

News Releases (15)

Monarch Migration Festival to take place in person

Free hands-on monarch butterfly event is fun for all ages

Free hands-on event to spread education on monarch butterflies

Small bees attracted to small flowers

Latest conservation practices will highlight Southern Illinois Conservation Workshop

Learn how to make your landscape attractive to pollinators

Get to know the incredible Illinois milkweed

Large yard not required to support pollinators

Researchers call on backyard scientists to help save pollinators

Learn how to attract pollinators to your garden and why it is important

Pollinator Partnership honors Extension Master Naturalists

Gardening benefits body, mind, wallet

Birds, bees need growers' help to keep pollinating

Perennial plant of the year, calamint, a perfect pick for pollinators

Partnering up for a pollinator garden in Normal

Staff (2)

Christopher Enroth

Christopher Enroth

Horticulture Extension Educator

Ken Johnson Staff Photo

Ken Johnson

Horticulture Educator