Outdoor Radio: A Pollinator Paradise At The Birds Of Vermont Museum

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Outdoor Radio: A Pollinator Paradise At The Birds Of Vermont Museum

开云体育 | By Chris Albertine

Published July 21, 2016 at 7:30 AM EDT

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A Common Eastern Bumblebee visits a salvia flower at a pollinator garden at the Birds Of Vermont Museum.

Kent McFarland / Vermont Center For Ecostudies

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The Common Ringlet, along with bees, flies and butterflies is an important pollinator.

Kent McFarland / Vermont Center For Ecostudies

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A Crane Fly visits a black raspberry blossom at the Birds Of Vermont Museum.

Kent McFarland / Vermnt Center For Ecostudies

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Vermont Ecostudies biologists Kent McFarland and Sara Zahendra visited the Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington with Executive Director Erin Talmadge. (Talmadge is in the center)

Chris Albertine / VPR

The Birds Of Vermont Museum in Huntington has created pollinator gardens to attract and support bees, butterflies, flies and other insects.

Kent McFarland and Sara Zahendra, ecologists at the Vermont Center For Ecostudies, visited the museum to talk about pollinators and plants with Executive Director Erin Talmadge and Museum Educator Allison Gergely.

The museum selected native and ornamental flowers that are attractive to both pollinators and gardeners. In this edition of Outdoor Radio, McFarland and Zahendra talk about the wide variety of insects that benefit from these special gardens and how to create a pollinator paradise in your own garden.

To learn more about pollinators and how to attract them, we recommend these resources:

from the US Forest Service
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A Crane Fly visits a black raspberry blossom at the Birds Of Vermont Museum.

Outdoor Radio is produced in collaboration with The Vermont Center For Ecostudies and is made possible in part by the Byrne Foundation. The program is recorded and produced by VPR chief audio engineer Chris Albertine.