PennDOT says two Indiana County highway intersections will be part of a conservation project beginning next spring.
The agency says the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania recently was awarded two National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grants from the Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund, which works to help the monarch butterfly and other at-risk native insect pollinators.
The Route 119/286 intersection and the Roue 119/110 intersections in White Township will be seeded with milkweed plants and 20 other species of native nectar plants attractive to pollinating insects such as the monarch butterfly, rusty-patched bumblebees, yellow banded bumblebees and other imperiled bumblebees and pollinators. Also, clump-forming grasses for nesting will also be planted.
The grant will improve more than 150 acres of rights of way in Pennsylvania to provide habitat for monarchs and pollinators through the planting of native species and the monitoring of bumblebees.
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