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Bee Informed: Native Plants for Restoration, Caffeine Helps Bees Learn to Find Flowers, and Monarch Butterfly Declared Endangered

Bee Informed: Native Plants for Restoration, Caffeine Helps Bees Learn to Find Flowers, and Monarch Butterfly Declared Endangered

Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability. 1. "These Are My Most Trusted Native Plants For Restoration And Here’s Why" (Anna Murray, Xerces Society) I am a pollinator habitat specialist, which means that I plant a lot of plants. In my 15 years of growing native plants in nurseries and restoring habitats in national parks, college campuses, home gardens and farms, I estimate that I have personally grown or planted over 90,000 native plants and facilitated the planting of over 260,000. Here are a few native plants that...

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