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The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

239-Pollinators of Native Plants: How to Attract, Observe and Identify These Essential Insects

The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

Joe Lamp'l

Home & Garden, Hobbies, Leisure

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

While many people understand that native plants are important, there's often a gap in understanding what pollinators rely on them. Understanding how to attract, observe and identify these essential insects is vital to our role in helping promote biological diversity within the species. To help us understand more about this important topic, my guest this week is biologist, pollinator conservationist and award-winning author Heather Holm.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

0:08.8

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

0:13.2

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

0:18.6

Joe Lample.

0:19.6

Hello everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe

0:23.2

Gardner Show.

0:24.2

Today, I am very excited to be speaking with Heather Home.

0:28.0

She is a rock star in my eyes for taking the deep dive into helping us learn all about

0:32.6

pollinators and our native plants, along with how to attract and observe and identify

0:37.2

those main groups of pollinators and beneficial insects.

0:40.9

And those groups include native bees, wasps, flies, and beetles, some of the unsung heroes

0:47.0

of the pollinator world.

0:49.0

Heather is the author of three incredible books related to pollinators.

0:53.0

And based on my discussion with her today, as well as being a proud owner of all three

0:57.9

of her books, we will be having Heather back in future episodes to talk about those other

1:03.1

two books.

1:04.6

One is dedicated to native bees and the plants that they forage.

1:08.7

And her latest book, it's on everything related to wasp.

1:11.9

Now if you're wondering how much is there to say about wasp, you'll want to listen to

1:15.6

this upcoming podcast in a few weeks from now, because that book is not only gorgeous,

1:21.0

but it is packed with information and there are over 400 pages of information in there.

1:26.0

So just wait for that one.

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