NRCS provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and landowners to help them plan and implement a variety of conservation practices, including those that benefit bees, monarch butterflies, other pollinators and beneficial insects. 

Some Conservation practices to benefit pollinators and beneficial insects include:

• Conservation Cover -native warm season plantings​
• Cover Crops
  
• ​Field Borders
  
• Tree and Shrub Plantings
  

Bumblebees on purple coneflower. Munising area.

Diverse cover crop mix with sunflower, turnip, radish, crimson clover, pea, soybeans, oats, and millet. This mix was frequented by honey bees and other pollinators. Munising area.

Monarch caterpillar and bumble bee on common milkweed. Munising area.

Serviceberry flower; an important spring flower for pollinators and beneficial insects. Munising area.

Monarch butterfly on butterfly milkweed. Munising area.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on wild geranium plant. Munising area.

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Please reach out if you'd like to discuss
​ pollinator and beneficial insects on your property or set up a site visit.

email

Misa.Cady@usda.gov
​Kelly.Sippl@usda.gov
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phone

906-251-3070
906-251-3064​

address

780 Commerce Drive
Suite C
​Marquette, MI 49855

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