Sunday pollinators

Next week is National Pollinators Week, but the entire month of June is National Pollinators Month. We need bees, bats, birds, butterflies and other pollinators for a lot, like any plant-based food we eat or that our livestock eat, controlling erosion, sequestering carbon and so much more. So today, let’s pay homage to the critters who help keep us fed.

What really should be mascot for copy editors, the comma butterfly.
I believe I can fly … I believe I can catch the butterfly … Image found on Bored Panda.
I got a little artsy with this bee and coneflower.
Yes, I DO like to move it, move it … move pollen from one plant to another. Image found on USDA Forest Service.
An American lady on a coneflower at Mount Magazine State Park. Image found on naba.org.
Bats still creep me out, but they’re more useful than you might think. Image found on Houston Museum of Natural Science.
A silver-spotted skipper drinks nectar from a butterfly bush at the Old Mill in North Little Rock.
Ladybugs are one of my favorite insects. Image found on Pinterest.
A bee hangs out on a partridge pea.
There’s enough to share, I think. Image found on Piedmont Environmental Alliance.
I was helping pollinate! Image found on QuotesGram.
I don’t like wasps, but as they’re also pollinators, I’ll give them a pass this time. Image found on University of Maryland.
Aaaaaannnnd … that’s enough of that, folks! GIF found on GifBin.

10 thoughts on “Sunday pollinators”

  1. We think that Russia bottling up Ukraine’s agriculture has created a problem, but if the pollinators disappear, we will learn what food problems are really like. Take a bee to lunch. Wasps can fend for themselves.

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    • That is sad. Here, Little Rock let businesses plant whatever they want in the street planters. Our managing editor, who is the one who brought in monarch caterpillars each year till the pandemic so we could watch the process, planted a pollinator garden in ours.

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    • I see them alot now as my Rose of Sharon & purple coneflowers are blooming! I’ve seen bees drunken with pollen taking a break on a coneflower in the past. ☺️ My yard is irregular & unsterile. Daisies have just finished so I’m cutting them back. Queen Anne’s Lace & other wildflowers abloom. One flower holds so many seeds! I cut off spent blooms most of the time. Other perennials & annuals abloom! Parsley is a favorite of the swallowtail butterfly. It’s caterpillars are black & green striped. Don’t make the mistake I did the year I learned this – I had seen so many horned worms on tomatoes that I drowned the caterpillars that would have been swallowtails 😢. Three or four. But too many. Parsley is a host plant for them. So, if you see them on parsley, know they will be a beautiful butterfly.
      Pesticides are killing off our precious pollinators. So is loss of habitat all over the world. Planting & maintaining pollinators AND host plants is very important – and being wary of pesticides. 🤗❤️🙏

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      • Definitely need to make sure we maintain as much wild landscape as we can, and use natural pest management practices whenever possible. Your yard sounds great! At some point I’ll get my butt in gear and get stuff growing again.

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  5. Thank you! I keep the violets, too & pull the weeds I don’t want. My aunts, grandmother, and mom all liked the little cards that had the old-fashioned wooden wagon full of violets; so, they are if sentimental value to me – but – are also good host plant i believe I read. Those & ajuga blooming in Spring are so pretty! Coneflowers & Shasta Daisies started with seed packets years ago. Then they self-propagate when the flower centers turn to seed. Rose of Sharon flowers do the same. And other plants as well. 🦋🐝🌼🐞🌸 🐛💐🦋

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