No Mow May lawns have higher pollinator richness and abundances: An engaged community provides floral resources for pollinators.

ABSTRACT: No Mow May is a community science initiative popularized in recent years that encourages property owners to limit their lawn mowing practices during the month of May. The goal of No Mow May is to provide early season foraging resources for pollinators that emerge in the spring, especially in urban landscapes when few floral resources are available. We worked with the city council of Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. to allow No Mow May to take place in May 2020. Four hundred and thirty-five property owners registered for No Mow May in Appleton. We measured floral and bee richness and abundance in the yards of a subset of homes (N = 20) located near regularly mowed urban parks (N = 15) at the end of the month. We found that homes that participated in No Mow May had more diverse and ab

SUBMITTER: Del Toro I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7518183 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature