Parts of Flower
This part of the flower helps attract the attention of pollinators and is usually brightly colored or decorated with patterns.
Petals
This pollinator is one of most common and hard-working pollinators known for being attracted to a wide diversity of plants. It is known for making honey.
Honeybee
This liquid is needed for all animal life to survive.
Water
All plants need pollinators to help them produce seed.
False. Not all plants need pollinators to help them move pollen from one plant to another. Some rely on other helpers like wind and water.
Is the number of pollinators in our world increasing or decreasing?
Decreasing
This product of the flower is usually yellow in color and moved from one flower to another to help make seeds.
Pollen
This pollinator is attracted to flowers that smell stinky or smell like rotting fruit or meat.
Fly
In a pollinator garden, is it is better to plant lots of different kinds of plants or lots of the same type of plant?
Lots of different kinds of plants
Apples need pollinators to make fruit and seeds.
True
Why does new construction of roads, houses, and businesses impact pollinator populations?
It decreases the size of their habitat.
What holds up the plant and keeps it from falling?
Stem
This pollinator is a fan favorite because of its delicate and beautifully decorated wings.
Butterfly
Can all plants be planted beside each other, or do some plants not like each other?
Some plants DO NOT like each other and should not be planted beside others.
Cucumbers need pollinators.
True
Do pollinators get diseases?
Yes, just like people, pollinators can be impacted by a wide variety of diseases.
Many flowers produce this sweet liquid that many pollinators like to consume.
Nectar
These pollinators are attracted to flowers that are white, give off a sweet smell and bloom at nighttime.
Bats & Moths
What we call plants that grow in their original, natural ecosystem.
Native plants
Corn needs pollinators.
False. Corn plants and most other cereal crop plants and plants in the grass family are pollinated with help from the wind.
Can people make decisions and take actions that will help protect pollinators in our environment?
AND Name one thing you can do
What part of a plant/flower absorbs its nutrients?
The roots!
These pollinators like flat, wide-open flowers that have a lot of pollen.
Beetles
You should avoid using this kind of chemical in a pollinator garden.
a pesticide
Carrots need pollinators.
True. Although we eat the root of the carrot and not the fruit, if a carrot plant does not make more seeds, then it cannot make new plants and the species will eventually die out.
This term is used to describe changes in environmental conditions that impact things like temperatures and rainfall.
Climate change