- Beavers and Buckbean shows beavers harvesting and storing Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata) for the winter.
- This was observed in several of the ponds in the Mendenhall Glacier campground in Juneau, Alaska.
- To learn about the nutritional value of Buckbean look at this paper on The Use of Aquatic Plants by Moose
- In this video you can watch a moose eating buckbean https://www.naturebob.com/moose-eating-buckbean
- More information about Buckbean can be found in this paper on Seasonal changes in redox properties of peat, nutrition and phenology of
Menyanthes trifoliata L. in a floating peat mat in Mizorogaike Pond, central Japan - Also look at this paper on Nutrient Concentrations
- Also this paper gives more information on the importance of Buckbean to beavers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304377014000175
Beavers and Buckbean
https://vimeo.com/298138423