Wild Bergamot in Quebec

What it feeds

Wild Bergamot is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.

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  Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble BeeEndangeredBee

  The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.

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  Barn SwallowThreatenedBird

  A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.

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  Bank SwallowThreatenedBird

  It feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.

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  Olive-sided FlycatcherThreatenedBird

  It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.

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  American Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee

  It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.

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  Eastern Wood-PeweeSpecial concernBird

  Its slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.

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  Transverse Lady BeetleSpecial concernBeetle

  Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.

Photos: Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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