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• or vegetable plant. Providing bee habitat in your yard can increase the quality and quantity of your fruit and vegetable harvests. Nectar plants for bees Bees are attracted to most flowering plants, and are especially fond of blue and yellow flowers.Try planting your garden so you have different species blooming in the spring, summer, and fall. Plants for bees include: Bee balm Black -eyed Susan Cardinal flower Clover and other legumes Cosmos Crape myrtle Goldenrods Lupine Mallows Milkweeds Mints Sunflowers Bee houses A good use for scrap lumber (at least 3 -5 inches thick) is to drill holes (from 1/8 -inch to 5 /16-inch in diam- eter) about 90 percent of the way into the thick wooden block. Space the holes about 1/2 -inch to 3 /4-inch apart. The 5/16 -inch holes work best as homes for orchard bees, which are excellent pol- linators of fruit trees. Hang your bee blocks under the eaves of your house or gar- den shed, protected from direct sun and rain. Attracting bats to your yard Bats can be beneficial and interesting mammalian species in your neighborhood. Bats are among the most important consumers of night- flying insects, including mosquitoes, moths, and beetles. For example, a PREVIOUS PAGE (top) Monarch butterfly on coneflower; (bottom right) Digger bee; (left) Giant swallowtail after emerging from chrysalis THIS PAGE (top right) Canada goose; (bottom) Egret over wetland; (left) Pallid bat with insect On corporate lands Some corporate lands: are set aside, and managed just.for wildlifer . habitat.', The, Wildlife Habitat:Council. has implemented wildlife enhancement programs, on more -than 550,000 acres in, the Unitedt States . and eight other'countr,ies. r Habitat projects on corporate lands are corporate - driven cooperative ;efforts among management, ':employees,. the community; local, conservation groups; andz rlocal ,State an Federalt �•r; 9 en 1 cies