Who this garden brings back
Because PollinatorGardener planted these, these named species have a place here.
Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterfly
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Mottled DuskywingEndangeredButterfly
This endangered butterfly can only raise its young on New Jersey Tea. Plant the shrub, save the butterfly.
Rusty-patched Bumble BeeEndangeredBee
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble BeeEndangeredBee
The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
Little Brown BatEndangeredBat
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBird
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
Chimney SwiftThreatenedBird
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Common NighthawkThreatenedBird
Its dusk call is going quiet. It hunts the night-flying moths that evening-primrose and milkweed raise.
Eastern Whip-poor-willThreatenedBird
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.
Bank SwallowThreatenedBird
It feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
Olive-sided FlycatcherThreatenedBird
It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
Eastern MeadowlarkThreatenedBird
A grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
Wood ThrushThreatenedBird
Its flute-like song is fading from our woods. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it needs to feed its chicks.
Canada WarblerThreatenedBird
A bright yellow warbler in decline. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it feeds to its young.
BobolinkThreatenedBird
A bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
American Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Yellow-banded Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee
A once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.
Eastern Wood-PeweeSpecial concernBird
Its slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.
Transverse Lady BeetleSpecial concernBeetle
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
Great Spangled FritillarySpecialistButterfly
Its caterpillars eat only violets. The 'weed' most people pull is this butterfly's whole world.
Black SwallowtailSpecialistButterfly
It raises its young only on plants in the carrot family. Golden Alexanders is its native one.
Spicebush SwallowtailSpecialistButterfly
Its caterpillars can grow up on almost nothing but spicebush. Plant the shrub and you'll likely meet them.
Luna MothSpecialistMoth
One of our most beautiful moths raises its young on native trees like birch and serviceberry.
Photos: Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 · Photo by Benny Mazur, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Greg Schechter, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Ken Thomas, public domain · Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Megan McCarty, CC BY 3.0 · Photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Shawn Hanrahan, CC BY-SA 2.5
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