Happy Pollinator Week!

beeYes, June 22nd-28th is National Pollinator Week. Animal pollinators are needed for 90% of all flowering plants, and at least a third of human food crops.

We would be screwed without pollinators.

The folks at Pollinator.org have a bajillion PDF handouts for you, as well as some nifty posters. Xerces Society also has many PDF documents about how to garden to promote native bees.  (You did know honeybees are an introduced species in the US, right?)

Or how about checking out the book Forgotten Pollinators, or the Ecological Society of America Pollinator Toolkit?

BTW, while Michigan is pretty screwed up otherwise, the Governor has officially declared it Pollinator Week in Michigan (PDF).

Photo courtesy of Fairfax Co. Library

This entry was written by Bug Girl and posted on June 23, 2008 at 1:26 pm and filed under Bees, Entomology, Food, Gardening, Insects, Science with tags . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. raincoaster
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    “We would be screwed without pollinators.”

    Nice.

  2. Bug Girl
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 2:21 pm | Permalink

    I’m one classy broad. :D

  3. Cindy
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 3:42 pm | Permalink

    I guess I’m a little out of touch. I didn’t know there was a Pollinator Week last year. but thanks for passing the word along about this. I’ll do the same.

  4. Ted C. MacRae
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    Missouri is also screwed up – our “State Insect” is… are you ready?… the honey bee!

  5. Nuthatch
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    In honor of National Pollinator Week, I’ve posted a little photo essay on flies that are pollinators. They don’t get enough love.

  6. Bug Girl
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

    It’s the weirdest thing–the links to your blog are always messed up, Nuthatch!

    And it is a lovely photo essay. You beat me to my Thursday Topic :)

  7. qw88nb88
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 7:51 pm | Permalink

    Just buzzing by (finally got my fixed laptop back) — Forgotten Pollinators is one of my fave books!

    Oh, and have you seen all these lovely bee things?
    http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/danger-will-robinson-danger/

    andrea