Celebrate National Pollinator Week

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:

Participate in National Pollinator
Week activities:  http://pollinator.org/pollinator-week

Learn more about
specific S. California pollinators:

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

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

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

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

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

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Other
Pollinators and insects: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2016/07/insect-postings-mother-natures-backyard.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

 

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