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Tips for Pollinator Proliferation

Provide pithy and hollow-stem nesting for native bees. Tunnel-nesting bees are great pollinators of early-blooming fruits and will lay their eggs in hollow tubes such as bamboo, paper tubes and drilled holes, and the pithy stems of staghorn sumac, raspberry and elderberry. Reduce lawn area and plant wildflowers instead. Reducing lawns by planting a native