Flower Features
This part of the flower helps attract the attention of pollinators and is usually brightly colored or decorated with patterns.
What are petals?
This pollinator is one of most common and hard-working pollinators. They are famous for making honey.
What is a honeybee?
What is happening to the pollinator's overall population?
What is a decreasing population?
What pollinator is the only mammal that has true flight?
What is a bat?
What three important things do you need to provide in your garden to support pollinators?
What is food, water, and shelter?
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 pollinator is attracted to flowers that smell stinky or smell like rotting fruit or meat.
What are flies?
Why does new construction of roads, houses and businesses impact pollinator populations?
What is decreasing the size of habitat?
This pollinator prefers to drink nectar from red or tubular-shaped flowers.
What type of plants should we grow for pollinators?
Many flowers produce this sweet liquid that many pollinators like to consume.
What is nectar?
Milkweed is the host plant of this pollinator.
What is a monarch?
A plant that is out-competing native plant species.
What is an invasive species?
This pollinator spreads pollen by crawling on the flowers and sticking to its sticky textured skin.
What is a slug?
You should avoid using this kind of chemical in a pollinator garden.
What are pesticides?
Pollinators help flowers during this important process.
What is reproduction?
These pollinators are attracted to flowers that are white, give off a sweet smell and bloom at nighttime.
What are bats and moths?
This term is used to describe changes in environmental conditions that impact things like temperatures and rainfall.
What is climate change?
This male species feeds exclusively on plant nectar, and the females don't when producing eggs.
What is a mosquito?
A structure built for solitary bee species to provide a habitat/home.
What is a bee hotel?
This part of the flower makes the pollen.
What is the stamen?
These pollinators like flat, wide-open flowers that have a lot of pollen.
What are beetles?
A living organism attacking the biological attacking a pollinator.
What is a parasite?
What is the name of the structure on a bumblebee's leg used for collecting pollen?
What is a pollen basket?
This is a choice you can make at the grocery store to support pollinators.
What is organic produce?