Category: Wildlife

Tips and Tricks to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden

Attracting hummingbirds invites pollinators to your garden. They are small, agile, quiet, brave, colorful pollinators that are gentle on crops and domestic animals. Hummingbirds have almost worldwide acceptance among humans. When attracting hummingbirds, remember also to protect them! Know the Background! There are about 340 hummingbird species. Hummingbirds can weigh from .06 to 0.85 ounces,…

How to Attract and Protect Pollinators

Pollinators are very important to successful gardening. They are a blessing and a necessity in nature for the survival of plants and the yield of bounteous crops. Pollinators are plants’ natural allies! The Process Pollinators transfer pollen from a stamen to a pistil that fertilizes the flower. Pollen attaches itself to most successful pollinators, making…

All About Bees and How to Attract Them

Honeybees and other pollinators are paramount to our food supply production. The USDA estimates that the honeybees are accountable for ALL but 20% of our crop pollination and that 33% of our food consumption come from insect-pollinated crops. Of the over 19,000 familiar bee species, the Apis Mellifera (western honeybee) is used generally for pollinating…