BOWDOIN COLLEGE • June 30, 2025
A landscaping crew—with help from willing ecology students—will begin the process next fall of converting small patches of lawn at the Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick into pollinator habitat. The gardens will be “99.9 percent” filled with native plants. Once they mature, they'll burst into a palette of colorful, nectar-rich blossoms every spring and summer. The new gardens will help support wasps, bees, butterflies, flies, beetles, and other insects that are lured to scented flower petals and sweet nectar. As the insects drink the sugary compound, they kickstart the life-sustaining process of pollination that fertilizes new seeds.