Protect Our Pollinators is a nonprofit organization devoted
to the conservation of pollinators and their habitats.
Lights Out CT
for Bird Migration
August 15 thru November 15
11 PM to 6 AM
Pledge to turn off the lights.
LightsoutCT.org
Want to Help our Struggling Pollinators?
1) Convert 10% of your lawn to pollinator habitat.There are more than 40 million
acres of lawn or turfgrass in the U.S. alone. This change would add four million acres for
bees, butterflies, and birds.
2) Replace some of your non-native ornamental plants with native plants.Many
different kinds of beneficial insects rely on native plants as food or for nesting sites. These
insects are food for birds and other wildlife. Declines in backyard birds are linked to an
increase in the number of non-native plants.
3) There is no need to use Pesticides on a lawn or garden. Pesticides, especially
insecticides, kill bees and other pollinators and beneficial insects that are meant
to control pests.Systemic pesticides calledNeonicontinoids (Neo-nics)are lethal to
bees and other pollinators. And the most commonly used herbicide, Roundupis wiping
out milkweed and other wildflowers essential for native bee pollinators and butterflies.
Roundup additivesare toxic to Bumblebees.
4) Turn off the lights. Lights harm night-flying insects. Moths are a night-time
pollinator and are food for birds and other wildlife.Attracted by the light, they
become exhausted and die. Fireflies, in their immature stage, are important for pest
control. Lights disturb these night-flyers seeking mates to reproduce. By adding motion
sensors and using yellow LED lights will preserve these important insects.
Keystone Plants
Contact us at: ProPollinators@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/protectourpollinators
- to save our endangered pollinators through education and action.
Special Relationships
with Wildlife
Native plants are native trees, shrubs, flowering perennials and grasses that are indigenous to a particular region (or ecoregion). Many of these natives are considered Keystone Plants because they are required for the survival of specific pollinators and caterpillars.
Just as a keystone of an archway holds all the other stones in place to secure the structure's integrity, Keystone Plants ensure healthy native plant communities. They are critical to the food web and necessary for many wildlife species to complete their life cycle.
Protect Our Pollinators is a proud Partner of the Pollinator Pathway Northeast and Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership and proud supporter of the Homegrown National Park and Eco59 seed collective.
Our Mission
To order, mail your donation to:
Protect Our Pollinators
12 Whippoorwill Hill Road
Newtown CT 06470
Suggested donation is $20.
Sat
Sale includes a variety of perennial plants
and grasses, Button Bush, Oaks and MORE.
Fall is a great time for planting native perennials, trees
and shrubs. This gives plants a head start, as roots
strengthen over the winter months. When Spring,
arrives, the plants are ready to grow!
All pollinator plants were winter sown from
locally sourced seeds and potted with care
by members of Protect Our Pollinators.
This fundraiser helps support POP's
Mission of Conserving endangered pollinators.