Residential areas provide important food and shelter for many of our threatened and endangered pollinators. By establishing pollinator habitat in your home landscape using native plants, you become an active part of helping to protect and restore these at-risk species. Unfortunately, many plants (even some native plants) that are labeled as pollinator friendly can be treated with pesticides or grown using neonicotinoids, that can be toxic to bees and other beneficial insects.
Corrine Daniels of Bombus LLC, a wholesale native plant nursery will share her industry insider knowledge of pesticide use, impacts, and why some growers find it so hard to walk away from them. She will describe the practices that allow her nursery to avoid the use of pesticides, including harmful neonicotinoids. She will also discuss how to select native plant species to support and improve native pollinator health and diversity, including bumblebee immune system boosters.
About Our Speaker
Corrine Daniels is the Owner and Manager of Bombus LLC, a women-owned small business whose mission is to serve the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin ecological restoration community with high-quality products and services. She has 30 years of experience in the native nursery and ecological restoration field. Prior to establishing her own business, she led Taylor Creek Restoration Nurseries for more than 25 years. Her business is located on a historic multi-generational family farm nestled in the rolling hills of Southern Wisconsin, near the Illinois/Wisconsin state line.