Priscilla H. C. Crawford

Conservation Biologist, Oklahoma Biological Survey

Spring in the Pollinator Meadow – April-May 2019

May 25, 2019

Phase 1 of the pollinator meadow that we planted with perennials during the summer of 2018 was filled with leaves that needed to be raked in the early spring. This revealed a lot of bare dirt that is good for ground nesting bees and annual seeds to sprout. Not much was available in this section … More Spring in the Pollinator Meadow – April-May 2019

Phase 2 – Pollinator Meadow

December 17, 2018

Mid-December we held a field day to collect and plant seeds in the second phase of our pollinator meadow at the OU Biological Station at Lake Texoma. Students and private landowners helped to gather seeds from a nearby remnant prairie and spread them in a newly solarized patch of ground.