Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Types of Flowers We Used

The most important part of the pollinator box, are the flowers. We planted many different types of flowers, in hopes of attracting all sorts of pollinators. The 2 main insects that we were most focused on were bees and butterflies. However, other bugs would be just fine with these plants as well. The first plants we bought were targeting bees. Now, bees see all colors but red, so we chose flowers that were blue and purple for them. We planted the following: Blue Balloon, Verbena imagination, and Salvia microphylla. These flowers will attract bees from all over the area. For the butterflies, we need different plants. For the butterflies we planted the following: Salvia Violin Music, Salvia clevelandll, and the Salvia Amistad. With all of these flowers incorporated into our pollinator box, any passing buy insects won't be able to resit it.

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