Heather Holm

Heather Holm - author of Pollinators of Native Plants, Bees, and Wasps. Pollinator Conservationist and Environmental Educator

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@DustinDemmer I’ve wondered about this. I’ve been overseeding cool season Elymus in my garden for the last several years for this very reason.

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@BerondaM @Engaging Nice to meet you, @BerondaM ! I enjoyed you prestation as well.

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@YourNatureBoy @DLNarango Our list includes short native perennials, sedges, and grasses. We recommend small (cell pack) sized plants to limit any damage to tree roots, and not planting within 18” of a tree trunk.

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

My latest storymap features Soft Landings, a concept developed by Leslie Pilgrim and me. This concept builds upon @DLNarango's research on leps and host plants.
Soft Landings are diverse native plantings under the dripline of keystone native trees.
Link: https://t.co/FFt1vDovSQ

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@milesand_miles Helophilus sp.

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@cindylang17 I always ask, which bees?

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@Carignan10 Nice!

[Naturalist David Mizejewski @Dmizejewski]

Fantastic storymap by @BeesNativePlant on creating "soft landings" of native vegetation & leaf layer under keystone trees to support butterflies, moths, bees, fireflies and many other wildlife species in our gardens.
https://t.co/LGeZpbpTTo

@NWF @Garden4Wildlife

[Rebecca McMackin @McmackinRebecca]

@CatrinEinhorn And so happy to be alongside rockstars @BeesNativePlant and @SaveWildBees Go team bees!

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

Yesterday, cellophane #bee (Colletes inaequalis) females perched at their nest entrances in morning, waiting for temps to warm up. Males patrolling nest aggregation. In afternoon, females visited pussy willow. Nest provisioning iminent after today's rainy weather subsides.

[Canadian Wildlife Federation @CWF_FCF]

Join CWF April 11th as Heather Holm, highly-respected researcher and award-winning author, shares her discoveries and beautiful photography of our native wasps. 🐝

Register here: https://t.co/mFdYVQU4Yx

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

"It turns out I’ve been filling my yard with a mix of ecological junk food and horticultural terrorists." 😆
https://t.co/gWkh1RetN9

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@ajfaff Cool! 😎

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

My latest storymap titled Signs of Spring, features the unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis). Learn more about the natural history of this early spring solitary bee and the native plants it depends on:
https://t.co/jR1UiflboG
#bees #pollinators #nativeplants

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@redtailsunset Thanks, Lindsey!

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

Latest video on my YouTube channel features the unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis). This bee species is active in early spring—as early as the end of March in MN. Watch the video to learn more about this bee's natural history:
https://t.co/QCu9iM10LL
#bees #pollinators

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

My latest video features the fraternal potter wasp (Eumenes fraternus), the amazing architect of jug-shaped mud nests!
https://t.co/MtEbeF7cZJ

#wasps #wasplove

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@BRVogt 😂

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

@Radicle110 @SaveWildBees A vespid but this one is Vespula. Social wasp fact sheets coming soon :)

[Heather Holm @BeesNativePlant]

I have been working on some new flower-associated wasp fact sheets for common species occurring in central and eastern North America! Several are now available to download from my author website here:
https://t.co/NmNmot6l3U
More to come when time permits 🙂
#wasps #WaspLove