Life-friendly Gardening – Celebrate National Pollinator Week (June 15-21, 2015)

National
Pollinator Week (the 3^rd week in June each year) celebrates the
importance of pollinators for all
life on earth. Eighty percent of food crops, as well as many ornamental plants,
require insect pollinators.    Life without living pollinators would be very
different, indeed.

Here
are some things you can do to celebrate National Pollinator Week:

 

Learn more about the
key role of pollinators:
http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2013/06/life-friendly-gardening-planning-for.html.

 

Learn more about
specific S. California pollinators:

·       
Metallic
Green Bees: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2012/09/metallic-green-bees-genus-agapostemon.html

·       
Yellow-faced
Bumble Bee: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2014/06/yellow-faced-bumble-bee-bombus.html

·       
Western
Tiger Swallowtail: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2014/07/western-tiger-swallowtail-papilio.html

·       
Duskywing
Butterflies: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2015/05/duskywing-butterflies-genus-erynnis.html

 

• Bee Flies: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2015/06/bee-flies-family-bombyliidae.html     

 

Create pollinator habitat in your
garden: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2013/06/life-friendly-gardening-planning-for.html

Register your garden as part of the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge (MPGC):  http://pollinator.org/MPGC.htm

 

Participate in National Pollinator
Week activities: http://www.pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2015.htm

 

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