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Aspen Parkland Ecoregion Selecting Plants for Pollinators A Guide for Gardeners, Farmers, and Land Managers In the Aspen Parkland ecoregion Southwestern Manitoba, Saskatchewan to central Alberta, including Red Deer, Edmonton, parts of Calgary, Lloydminster, North Battleford, Humboldt, Yorkton, and Brandon Table of CONTENTS Why Support Pollinators? 4 Getting Started 5 Aspen Parkland 6 Meet the Pollinators 8 Plant Traits 10 Developing Plantings 12 Farms 13 Public Lands 14 Home Landscapes 15 Plants That Attract Pollinators 16 Notes 22 Habitat hints 24 Habitat and Nesting requirements 25 This is one of several guides for S.H.A.R.E. 26 different regions of North America. We welcome your feedback to assist us in making the future guides Checklist 26 useful. Please contact us at [email protected] Resources and Feedback 27 2 Selecting Plants for Pollinators Selecting Plants for Pollinators A Guide for Gardeners, Farmers, and Land Managers In the Aspen Parkland Ecoregion Southwestern Manitoba, Saskatchewan to central Alberta, including Red Deer, Edmonton, parts of Calgary, Lloydminster, North Battleford, Humboldt, Yorkton, and Brandon A NAPPC and Pollinator Partnership Canada™ Publication with funding provided by Earth Rangers and Bayer Aspen Parkland 3 Why support pollinators? IN THEIR 1996 BOOK, THE FORGOttEN POLLINATORS, Buchmann and Nabhan estimated that animal pollinators are needed for the reproduction “Flowering plants of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops. Each of us depends on these industrious pollinators in a practical way to provide us with the wide range of foods we eat. In addition, pollinators are part of the across wild, intricate web that supports the biological diversity in natural ecosystems that helps sustain our quality of life. farmed and even Abundant and healthy populations of pollinators can improve fruit set and quality, and increase fruit size. In farming situations this increases production per hectare. In the wild, biodiversity increases and wildlife urban landscapes food sources increase. Much of the land in the Aspen Parkland ecoregion has been converted to agriculture with a large diversity of crops including actually feed the oilseeds, wheat and other cereals, forage crops, and specialty crops. Many rely on native and honey bees for pollination. Honey bees pollinate more than $4 billion worth of crops in Canada each year. terrestrial world, Unfortunately, the numbers of many native pollinators are declining. They are threatened by habitat loss, disease, climate change, and the excessive and pollinators and inappropriate use of pesticides. As a result research and conservation actions supporting native pollinators are increasingly active. Honey bee colony losses have significantly impacted beekeepers. Parasites, disease, are the great pesticide use, insufficient nutrition, and transportation practices all impact honey bee health, and this in turn can impact the commercial pollination services honey bees provide. The efforts to understand the threats to connectors who commercial bees should help us understand other pollinators and their roles in the environment as well. enable this giant It is imperative that we take immediate steps to help pollinator populations thrive. The beauty of the situation is that by supporting pollinators’ need for habitat, we support our own needs for food and support diversity in the food system to natural world. Thank you for taking time to consult this guide. By adding plants to your work for all who landscape that provide food and shelter for pollinators throughout their active seasons and by adopting pollinator friendly landscape practices, you can make a difference to both the pollinators and the people that rely on them. eat... Including us.” – Roger Lang, Chairman, Val Dolcini President & CEO Pollinator Partnership Pollinator Partnership 4 Selecting Plants for Pollinators Getting Started THIS REGIONAL GUIDE IS JUST Framework Report. The National Long before there were homes ONE in a series of plant selection Ecological Framework for Canada and farms in the Aspen Parkland tools designed to provide you with is a system created as a management ecoregion, natural vegetation information on how to plant local tool and is used to predict responses provided essential opportunities native plants for pollinators. Each to land management practices for wildlife, including pollinators. of us can have a positive impact throughout large areas. This guide Farmers, land managers, and by providing the essential habitat addresses pollinator-friendly land gardeners in this region have requirements for pollinators management practices in what a wide palette of plants to use including food, water, shelter, and is known as the Aspen Parkland in the landscape. In choosing enough space to raise their young. ecoregion. plants, aim to create habitat for pollinators that allow adequate food, Pollinators travel through the The seasonal cycle of sun and shade shelter, and water sources. Most landscape without regard to within the forests has created a pollinators have very small home property ownership or provincial changing pattern of bloom time for ranges. You will make a difference boundaries. We’ve chosen to use food plants and shelter needs for by understanding the vegetation the ecoregional classification system foraging, nesting, and migrating patterns on the farm, forest, or and to underscore the connections pollinators. Farms and residential neighbour’s yard adjacent to your between climate and vegetation areas provide a diverse range of soil property. With this information in types that affect the diversity of types in both sunny and shady areas. hand, your planting choices will pollinators in the environment. With this diversity of locations many better support the pollinators’ need different species of plants may be for food and shelter as they move The Canadian ecoregions are used to improve pollinator habitats through the landscape. based on the National Ecological where they are lacking. Aspen Parkland 5 Understanding the Aspen Parkland n The Aspen Parkland ecoregion is part of the Prairies Ecozone, and extends from southwestern Manitoba, through Saskatchewan, to central Alberta. The ecoregion has some of the most productive agricultural land in the prairies and much of the ecoregion has been converted to agriculture, with pockets of wildlife habitat. n Not sure about which region you live or work in? Go to www. pollinator.org/guides and click on Ecoregion Locator for help. n Short, warm summers and long cold winters with mean summer temperature of 15°C and mean winter temperature of -12.5°C.. n Mean annual precipitation of 400-500 mm. n Fertile, warm black soils. n Some glacial till landscapes with numerous small lakes, ponds, and sloughs. Characteristics n Considered a transitional ecoregion with grasslands to the south and boreal forest to the north. n Historically characterized by trembling aspen, oak, mixed shrubs, and grasslands. n Significant breeding area for waterfowl. 6 Selecting Plants for Pollinators The Aspen Parkland ecoregion includes: Red Deer, Edmonton, Parts of Calgary, Lloydminster, North Battleford, Humboldt, Yorkton, and Brandon Aspen Parkland 7 Meet the Pollinators Who are the tomatoes and blueberries. Sweat bees (family Halictidae) are pollinators? medium to small-sized, slender bees Bees that commonly nest underground. Bees are the best documented Various species are solitary while pollinators in the natural and others form loose colonies, nesting agricultural landscapes of the Aspen side-by-side. Other common solitary Parkland ecoregion. A wide range bees include mining bees (Andrena of wild and crop plants, including spp.), which nest underground and plants in the Aster and Rose are common in the spring; leaf- Families, canola, specialty crops, cutter bees (Megachile spp.), which and some forage crops benefit from prefer dead trees or branches for bee pollinators. their nest sites; and mason bees (Osmia spp.), which utilize cavities Most of us are familiar with the they find in stems and dead wood colonies of honey bees that have that they fill with mud. been the workhorses of agricultural pollination for years in Canada. Butterfl ies They were imported from Europe Butterflies prefer open and sunny almost 400 years ago and continue areas such as meadows and along to be managed for honey production woodland edges that provide bright and pollination services. There are flowers, water sources, and specific over 800 species of native ground host plants for their caterpillars. and twig nesting bees in Canada. Photo courtesy of Tim Dunne Photo courtesy of Tim Gardeners have been attracting Ruby-throated Hummingbird, a Most of these bee species live a butterflies to their gardens for some summer species in the Aspen solitary life; a minority are social and time. To encourage butterflies place Parkland ecoregion. form colonies or nest in aggregations. flowering plants where they have Native bees visit and pollinate full sun and are protected from the many crops; in many cases they wind. They usually look for flowers are better at transferring pollen that provide a good landing platform. than honey bees. Our native bees Butterflies need open areas (e.g., can be encouraged to do more to bare earth, large stones) where support agricultural endeavours if they can bask, and moist soil from their needs for nesting habitat are which they wick needed minerals. met and if suitable sources of nectar, Butterflies eat rotten fruit and even Plains Branded Skipper pollen, and water are provided. Bees dung, so don’t clean up all the messes come in a variety of body shapes in your garden! By providing a safe and sizes, and even have tongues place to eat and nest, gardeners of different lengths. Native bees can also support the pollination visit the widest range of flowers and role that butterflies play in the crops of any pollinator group. landscape. There is a large diversity of butterflies in the Aspen Parkland Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) form ecoregion and it is common to see small colonies, usually underground the Grey Copper (Lycaena dione), making use of old rodent burrows or the Gorgone Checkerspot (Chlosyne dense thatches.
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