Flower Parts
This part of the flower helps attract the attention of pollinators and is usually brightly colored or decorated with patterns
What are petals?
This common pollinator is attracted to a wide variety of plants and is known to make honey.
What is a honeybee (bee)?
This liquid is needed for all life to survive.
What is water?
All plants need pollinators to help them produce a seed.
False.
Is the number of pollinators in our world increasing or decreasing?
Decreasing.
This product of the flower is usually yellow and moved from one flower to another to help make seeds.
What is pollen?
This pollinator is attracted to flowers that smell stinky.
What is a fly?
In a pollinator garden, is it better to plant lots of different kinds of plants or a lot of the same type of plant?
Lots of different kinds (a diversity).
Apples need pollinators to make fruit and seeds.
True.
Why does new construction of roads, houses, and businesses impact pollinator populations?
It makes the size of their habitat smaller.
Many flowers make sweet liquid that many pollinators like to consume
What is pollen?
This pollinator is a fan favorite because of it's delicate and beautifully decorated wings.
What is a butterfly?
You should avoid using this kind of chemical in a pollinator garden.
What is a pesticide?
Cucumbers need pollinators.
True.
Do pollinators get diseases?
Yes. Just like people.
This part of the flower makes pollen
What is the stamen?
These pollinators are attracted to flowers that are white, and come out at nighttime.
What are bats and moths?
What we call plants that grow in their original, natural ecosystem.
What are native plants?
Corn needs pollinators to make fruit and seeds.
False.
Can people make decisions and take action to help protect pollinators in our world?
YES!
This part of the flower is sticky on the top to catch pollen and make seeds at the bottom.
What is the pistil?
These pollinators like flat, wide open flowers that have lots of pollen.
What are beetles?
Pollinator gardens need food sources for these two stages of the insect life cycle.
What is larva and adult?
Carrots need pollinators.
True.
This term is used to describe changes in the environmental conditions that impact things like temperatures and rainfall.
What is climate change?