Tag: pollinator habitat

It’s Butterfly Season in Pennsylvania’s Powerline Meadows! These right-of-ways can serve as beautiful pollinator & native plant sanctuaries.

It’s Butterfly Season in Pennsylvania’s Powerline Meadows! These right-of-ways can serve as beautiful pollinator & native plant sanctuaries.

We cannot overstate the importance of these inadvertent meadows in powerline right-of-ways in providing critical habitat to support butterflies, as well as native bees and other important insects. Because we typically view powerline corridors as common and unsightly, we overlook the beauty they hold at a more detailed scale, and more importantly, underestimate their potential as native species corridors.