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Creating pollinator habitat: The 10 principles

Follow these 10 principles to turn your garden into a pollinator paradise. Plant flowers of different shapes, aim for continuous flowering and be sure to feature native plants. Include bulbs, shrubs and trees in your planting plan, and leave some bare dirt for ground-nesting bees.

Jun 2020 | Video

19 David Phipps – Golf Courses as Pollinator Habitat

David Phipps is considered one of the Northwest’s leaders in golf course environmental stewardship and innovation. While working as the superintendent at Stone Creek Golf, he received the GCSAA President’s Award for Environmental ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Aug 2017 | Podcast episode

118 – Rich Hatfield – Queen Quest

Oregon’s bumble bees are all hibernating. Mated bumble bee queen are known to winter in loose soil or leaf litter, but we don’t know much more beyond that. This week we talk with Rich Hatfield about a new community ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Nov 2019 | Podcast episode

75 Amy Cox – Eco-lawns and Pollinators

How can we ask not what greenspaces can do for us but what greenspaces can do for the environment? Portland-based Pro Time Lawn Seed was one of the first businesses to tackle this question, with the founder of the company...

Andony Melathopoulos | Nov 2018 | Podcast episode

45 Practicing Good Mason Bee Stewardship… The Bee Buddy Way

This week we are joined by Heath Keirstead and Jerry Paul from the Benton Soil and Water Conservation District (BSWCD). Heath is BSWCD’s Communication and Community Engagement Manager and Jerry has been involved with BSWCD as ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Mar 2018 | Podcast episode

Insect Ecology

Presentation by Silvia Rondon on Insect Ecology. Topics covered include types of metamorphosis, effects of temperature on development, how temperature affects SWD and potato tuberworm.

Silvia I. Rondon | Apr 2010 | Presentation

Providing Habitat for Native Pollinators 2

Learn how to attract and support native pollinators by creating and maintaining the right habitat, including features like nesting sites, quality food and shelter from pesticides. Listen to the Living on the Land podcast series -...

Karen Lamson, Rachel Suits, Brian Tuck, Susan Kerr, Ellen Hammond, Shilah Olson | Jan 2017 | Podcast episode Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Collecting Insects with Traps and Lights

Oregon State University Extension entomologist Silvia Rondon shows how to use pit fall traps and lights to collect insects.

Silvia I. Rondon | Jul 2011 | Video

100 – THE Everything-You-wanted-to-know-about-pollinators-but-were-afraid- to-ask SHOW

To mark 100 episodes of PolliNation we have assembled the dedicated faculty from OSU to answer your questions: Lincoln Best (Taxonomist, Oregon Bee Atlas), Dr. Sandra DeBano (OSU Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology Lab, Hermiston), ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Jun 2019 | Podcast episode

Providing Habitat for Native Pollinators 1

Learn how to attract and support native pollinators by creating and maintaining the right habitat, including features like nesting sites, quality food and shelter from pesticides. Listen to the Living on the Land podcast series -...

Karen Lamson, Rachel Suits, Brian Tuck, Susan Kerr, Ellen Hammond, Shilah Olson | Jan 2017 | Podcast episode Peer reviewed (Gray level)