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That is fascinating! Please do share when it becomes available. Thank you!</div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Let’s put the right seed, in the right place, at the right time! </span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Peter Bernhardt <peter.bernhardt@slu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 18, 2020 11:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> De Angelis, Patricia <patricia_deangelis@fws.gov>; PCA Listserve <native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: ARTICLE: New York TImes - How (and Why) to Use Native Plants</font>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Dear Patricia:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Thanks for sharing. Supporting pollinator diversity (especially native bees) in urban areas is a big part of the research of the Billikin Bee Lab in the Department of Biology at Saint
Louis University. The person spearheading this research is Dr. Gerardo Camilo if anyone is interested in contacting him. We are coming to the end of a 3-year study comparing the diversity of urban bees v. rural bees on redbud (Cercis canadensis) and dogwood
(Cornus florida). The work of Dr. Camilo and his students tends to confirm that bee diversity must be maintained by consistent flowering throughout the season. It's not enough to have a couple of native plants in bloom for a couple of weeks in April or May.
Some bees are specialists and only forage for a brief time on a few plant species but others have multiple generations throughout the growth season. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">For example, working at the Shaw Reserve my Masters student, Danny, found that a little green bee that foraged on false garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) for two weeks in April had descendants
that were still active on pink autumn onion (Allium stellatum) in August and September. These two species flower in the same limestone glade at Shaw each year, in the same cracks in the rocks but are never accessible to long-term, resident bees at the same
time. The paper is in press with the Journal of Pollination Ecology and I will send it along once we have e-reprints.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Peter</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 18, 2020 8:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PCA Listserve <native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [PCA] ARTICLE: New York TImes - How (and Why) to Use Native Plants</font>
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<div>In recent years, the demand for pollinator plants has surged. But most of us don’t have room for a meadow.<br>
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<span>So where do these native plants fit in your garden, which may not be that big and is probably not very wild-looking? And how do you find plants that are native to your particular location, with the highest value to beneficial insects and, in turn, birds
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<span>...Although a nursery tag may say “native,” the species could hail from a completely different sort of area. That’s because plants don’t observe state boundaries, but rather habitats within regional zones, like coastal plains or forests with particular
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