Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . A caller recently asked if yellow jessamine, known for its toxicity to people, was poisonous to bees. Our native bees and several butterflies serve as pollinators for this vine, our state flower. Carpenter bees, however, are too big to enter the fused floral tube and rob nectar by chewing a hole at the base of the flower. Having evolved together, native invertebrates aren’t affected by the poisonous alkaloids found