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LANDSCAPING TO ATTRACT WILDLIFE Vincent Mannino, County Extension Director – Fort Bend

LANDSCAPING TO ATTRACT WILDLIFE Vincent Mannino, County Extension Director – Fort Bend. What Do You Want to Attract?. Birds Animals Insects. Selecting Plant Species Important to Wildlife. Food Cover Perches Nesting or Denning Shade.

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LANDSCAPING TO ATTRACT WILDLIFE Vincent Mannino, County Extension Director – Fort Bend

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  1. LANDSCAPING TO ATTRACT WILDLIFEVincent Mannino, County Extension Director – Fort Bend

  2. What Do You Want to Attract? • Birds • Animals • Insects

  3. Selecting Plant SpeciesImportant to Wildlife • Food • Cover • Perches • Nesting or Denning • Shade

  4. ~ Attracting Animals ~Animals feed on leaves, twigs & fruit. • Twigs: oaks, hollies, hawthorns, rose, hackberry • Leaves: hollies, privet, honeysuckle, muscadine • Fruit: plums, hawthorns, pecans, acorns, dewberries, rabbit eye blueberries, persimmon, holly fruit, pyracantha

  5. Twigs & Leaves

  6. Fruit

  7. More Fruit…

  8. ~ Attracting Birds ~Birds Feed on Fruits, Seeds & Insects that Feed on Fruits and Seeds. • Fruit producers: mayhaws, plums, dewberries, blackberries, pawpaws, persimmons, black cherry/laurels, hollies, pyracantha • Seed producers: pecan, hickory, walnut, acorns, hackberry, poison ivy, waxmyrtle, persimmons, plums • Insects: include weevils, beetles, & webworms

  9. Fruit Producers

  10. Seed Producers

  11. Insects Attracted for Food

  12. ~ Attracting Beneficial Insects ~Beneficial Insects That Feed on Flowers Include: • Moths - mostly nocturnal, somber colors, various types of antennae, wings horizontal, straight stylet, fast flyers. • Butterflies - mostly daytime, brightly colored, knobbed antennae, wings mostly vertical, curled stylet, slow flyers. • Bees & Wasps - off all types, all are beneficial

  13. Resources

  14. Moths & Butterflies

  15. Plants to Attract Moths & ButterfliesAny Long, Tubular Flower Will Attract Moths & Butterflies.

  16. Bees & Wasps

  17. ~ Plants to Attract Bees & Wasps ~Most Any Flower Will Attract Bees and Wasps

  18. Questions?? Written by: Vincent Mannino County Extension Director Fort Bend County

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