laurence edwardsOwner at Black Mountain Honey

This Truly Is A WONDER Plant 🪴 🐝

29 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker observes a sunny day garden where ivy is teeming with a wide variety of insects—including bees, wasps, bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies, and moths—using the plant as a late‑season source of food, protein, and nectar. Emphasizing the ecological importance of ivy for pollinator health, the speaker urges gardeners to check their own ivy patches for insect activity and to refrain from cutting the vines until the pollinators have fully utilized this resource at the end of the season.

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I'm just going to go over how many insects are on the ivy at the moment. I went outside today, beautiful sunny day, and it was covered with bees and wasps, bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies, moths— countless insects that use the ivy as a late-season source of food, protein, and nectar. It's a really important plant for all of these pollinator species, and if you've got a patch in your garden I suggest you go out there, take a look, see how many insects are using that, and whatever you do, don't go cutting it down until the bees have made the most of it end of the season.