Celebrate National Pollinator Week

National Pollinator Week (the 3^rd week in June each year) celebrates the importance of pollinators for all life on earth. Eighty percent of food crops, as well as many ornamental plants, require insect pollinators.    Life without living pollinators would be very different, indeed.

Here are some things you can do to celebrate National Pollinator Week:

Participate in National Pollinator Week activities:  http://pollinator.org/pollinator-week

Learn more about specific S. California pollinators:

·         Metallic Green Bees: /mother-natures-backyard/2012/09/metallic-green-bees-genus-agapostemon.html

·         Yellow-faced Bumble Bee: /mother-natures-backyard/2014/06/yellow-faced-bumble-bee-bombus.html

·         Western Tiger Swallowtail: /mother-natures-backyard/2014/07/western-tiger-swallowtail-papilio.html

·         Duskywing Butterflies: /mother-natures-backyard/2015/05/duskywing-butterflies-genus-erynnis.html

·         Bee Flies: /mother-natures-backyard/2015/06/bee-flies-family-bombyliidae.html

·         Other Pollinators and insects: /mother-natures-backyard/2016/07/insect-postings-mother-natures-backyard.html

 

Create pollinator habitat in your garden: /mother-natures-backyard/2013/06/life-friendly-gardening-planning-for.html

 

Register your garden as part of the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge (MPGC):  http://pollinator.org/MPGC.htm

 

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