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Learn More About Pollinators
Although birds, bats, and other creatures are also pollinators, insects are the animals that do the bulk of the pollination that affects our daily lives.
Bees, bats, birds and butterflies do us an important service: As they visit flowers to feed on nectar, they carry pollen from plant to plant.
MSU Extension: Pollinators & Pollination
https://www.canr.msu.edu/tag/pollinators-and-pollination
MSU Extension's focus on pollinators and pollination brings together educators and researchers who are working with experts around the country to provide the latest information through webinars, seminars, online resources and email newsletters.
Pollinator.org
Who are the pollinators? Birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are pollinators.
Pollinators visit flowers in their search for food (nectar and pollen). Many plants cannot reproduce without pollen carried to them by foraging pollinators.
MSU works with partners around the state in pursuit of research-based solutions for beekeepers, growers, land managers, and policy makers to promote economic vitality and ecological stability.
Pollinators are responsible for assisting over 80% of the world's flowering plants to reproduce.
A pollinator is anything that helps carry pollen from the male part of the flower (stamen) to the female part of the same or another flower (stigma).
Pollinator Planting / MSU
https://pollinators.msu.edu/resources/pollinator-planting/
Pollinators require flowers for nectar and pollen as food. Flowers are lost as land is changed and developed, making life harder for our important pollinators. We can improve our landscapes in many different ways: by planting pollinator supportive lawns, gardens, large-scale plots, trees and establishing native bee habitat.
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