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 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? (A bee is another acceptable answer.)
This liquid is needed for all animal life to survive.
What is 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.
What is pollen?
This pollinator is attracted to flowers that smell stinky or smell like rotting fruit or meat.
What is a 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 kind of plants (a diversity).
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.
Many flowers produce this sweet liquid that many pollinators like to consume.
What is nectar?
This pollinator is a fan favorite because of its 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, pollinators can be impacted by a wide variety of diseases.
This part of the flower makes the pollen.
What is the stamen? (The anther is another acceptable answer.)
These pollinators are attracted to flowers that are white, give off a sweet smell and bloom 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 seeds.
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.
Yes!
This part of the flower is sticky on the top to catch pollen and makes seeds at the bottom.
What is the pistil?
These pollinators like flat, wide-open flowers that have a lot 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. 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.
What is climate change.