Plant flowers and shrubs that attract pollinators.

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Schedler has seen eight different types of butterflies in her yard, watches bees light on flowers and often spots lizards darting around a woodpile. Not only has she lived in her home for more than 40 years, she purposefully has shared it with a multitude of wildlife species. “I feel an intense amount of satisfaction that I’m doing something in my little place, just a small tract home from the ’70s, that has landscaping sufficient to attract some of the little critters that we desperately need to keep the planet functioning,” she says.

Click here to read the full article “Native plants can help turn your yard into a nature preserve” by Patricia Kime for USA Today at Kiii.tv.