Who is pollination

Donate Now. Toggle navigation. Who We Are. Home What are Pollinators. Pollination What is pollination and who are the pollinators? Adding habitat to farms systems works too — farms that have turned a potion of their fields into green space have gained back more overall yield [ 11 ]. Home owners can help too! Home gardens can and do attract pollinators [ 12 ], and in many cases suburbs and cities have been shown to have more diverse pollinator communities than nearby wildlands [ 13 , 14 ].

Pollinator gardening near community gardens also increases urban agricultural yields [ 17 ]. If you build it, they will come and help you get bigger and better crops too! Fortunately P2 has complied planting guides that helps you select the right plant for the right spot [ 20 ].

Plant the right plants on highway rights of ways, farms, schools, home gardens, corporate landscapes and on public spaces. It really will matter for all of us. Pollinator Week days. Donate Now. But did you know hornets, wasps and flies are all pollinators too?

Flies, beetles and wasps pollinate too. In some parts of the world birds and bats also transfer pollen from flower to flower. Many tree species rely on pollinators to reproduce. Hazel, crab apple and rowan are all examples of flowering trees that are pollinated by bees and other insects. Conifer species produce cones rather than flowers and rely on wind pollination. Male cones generate pollen, which is carried by the wind to female cones, which then use it to develop seeds.

With our essential Trees for Bees pack you can create a wildlife haven for bees and other pollinators. Each pack includes a mix of nectar-giving native tree species. Continuous blooms throughout the growing season provide pollinators with a constant food supply.

Spring: Pollinators need early blooming plants to provide food after hibernation or northern migrations. Bulbs, spring ephemerals and spring blooming fruit trees are visited during this time. Summer: Our gardens achieve their peak bloom when many pollinators reach peak populations.

The long days of summer provide pollinators the maximum time to forage for nectar. Fall: Late blooming plants provide many pollinators with needed fuel before hibernation or for the southern migrations of pollinators like monarchs and hummingbirds. Winter: Even when there appears to be little to no activity, pollinators are in the garden.

Leave decaying plants alone—they may be sheltering pollinating insects as they overwinter. Do you know some butterflies travel thousands miles? At the beginning of each spring, monarch butterflies migrate north from Mexico, following the growth of milkweed.

They travel up to 30 miles a day, returning to Mexico in the fall. Pollinator habitat depends on the pollinator and their life cycle stage. For example, bees can use leaves, mud, sand, plant resins and even abandoned snail shells for their nests, while many butterfly larvae live and feed only on one specific plant.

Pollinator habitats need to be within easy range of food and clean, shallow water. Do you know how bees find a flower patch? Honey bees communicate through a waggle dance in which scout bees return to the nest and dance to inform other bees about the distance and direction of a newly discovered flower patch.

Plants and pollinators evolved side by side over millions of years.