Quick Facts About Pollinators

Why pollinators matter: Pollinators help flowers become fruits, vegetables, and seeds. Without them, many favorite garden foods would be harder to grow.

Start small: Plant one native flower, skip pesticides when possible, and leave a little habitat for shelter.

Make Your Yard Pollinator-Friendly
1. Plant flowers that bloom from spring through fall.
2. Choose native plants when possible.
3. Use Integrated Pest Management before pesticides. *
4. Replace a little lawn with flowers or containers.
5. Add shallow water or a small muddy patch.

Quick Facts
• Pollinators help produce apples, blueberries, chocolate, coffee, melons, peaches, pumpkins, vanilla, almonds, and even tequila.
• In the U.S., pollination by honeybees and other insects supports about $40 billion in products every year.
• Bees can fly about 7 miles per hour and beat their wings around 190 times per second.
• A single ladybug can eat as many as 5,000 aphids in its lifetime.

Meet the Pollinator Team
Bees visit bright, sweet-smelling flowers.
Butterflies and moths sip nectar from broad or tube-shaped blooms.
Beetles are drawn to spicy or fruity scents.
Hummingbirds often visit red or orange tube-shaped flowers.
Bats pollinate pale night-blooming flowers.

Take action this week:
Plant one flower. Protect one pollinator. Grow a healthier community.
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*Integrated Pest Management basics:
EPA IPM Principles https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/integrated-pest-management-ipm-principles