Pollinators
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.
What is a honeybee?
This part of the flower helps attract the attention of pollinators and is usually brightly colored or decorated with patterns.
What are petals?
About 1 in every 3 of these you eat is a result of insect pollination.
What is a bite of food?
The primary reason pollinator populations are decreasing due to urban development.
What is habitat loss?
This pollinator is attracted to flowers that smell stinky or smell like rotting fruit or meat.
This product of the flower is usually yellow in color and moved from one flower to another to help make seeds.
What is pollen?
This substance does not have an expiration date.
What is honey?
The best way to plant a garden to help pollinators find food efficiently.
What is in clumps (rather than single plants)?
This pollinator is a fan favorite because of its delicate and beautifully decorated wings.
What is a butterfly?
Many flowers produce this sweet liquid that many pollinators like to consume.
What is nectar?
These popular foods rely on wind pollination rather than animal/insect pollination.
What are rice, wheat, and corn?
A common, yet controversial, tool used in agriculture that can harm pollinators.
What is a pesticide?
These pollinators are attracted to flowers that are white, give off a sweet smell and bloom at nighttime.
What are bats and moths?
This part of the flower makes the pollen.
What is the stamen (or anther)?
Fruits like agave, bananas, and saguaro cactus are pollinated by these.
What are bats?
This native plant is essential for monarch butterfly caterpillars.
What is milkweed?
These pollinators like flat, wide-open flowers that have a lot of pollen.
What are beetles?
This part of the flower is sticky on the top to catch pollen and makes seeds at the bottom.
What is the pistil?
Along with apples, this large orange food relies on insects for pollination.
What is a pumpkin?
This term refers to the variety of different plants, which is necessary for a healthy pollinator garden.
What is diversity?