{"id":1199,"date":"2014-06-18T02:35:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2014-06-18T02:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:35:33","slug":"lets-celebrate-national-pollinator-week-june-16-june-22-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Celebrate National Pollinator Week! June 16 – June 22, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Barb Elliot<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Pollinator Week* is a good time to watch, celebrate, and be thankful for pollinators.\u00a0\u00a0 After all, they are responsible for every third bite of our food and drink.\u00a0 They pollinate crops, trees, shrubs,\u00a0and flowers in our landscapes for free.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m having fun observing pollinators<\/p>\n

\"Native<\/a>

Native Bee on Sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa). Barb’s Yard 6\/16\/2014. \u00a9 Barb Elliot<\/p><\/div>\n

as flowers\u00a0bloom on my native trees, shrubs, and perennials.\u00a0Native bees, beetles, wasps, and\u00a0butterflies are busy during the day, and after dark I\u2019m finding moths and other nighttime insects visiting my flowers.\u00a0 Pollinator Week is a good time to take a walk in your yard, look for flowers with pollinators, and watch them as they work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a great time to do something for pollinators!\u00a0 Facing multiple threats, including habitat loss, pesticides, and diseases, they certainly need our help. \u00a0The simplest and best<\/p>\n

\"Moth<\/a>

Moth on Common Milkweed (Aesclepias syriaca). Barb’s yard, 6\/15\/2014. \u00a9 Barb Elliot<\/p><\/div>\n

thing we can do to help is add some pollinator-friendly native flowers to your landscape – even if it\u2019s just a few plants in a pot.\u00a0 Do even more by taking the Pollinator Pledge<\/a> through The Xerces Society Bring Back the Pollinators<\/i> program.
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For a list of pollinator-friendly plants and more information about pollinators, reasons for pollinator declines, and other simple actions you can take, see my March 24, 2014 post Pollinators Need Our Help!<\/a>
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(*Established in 2007 by the Pollinator Partnership<\/a>, Pollinator Week \u201chas grown exponentially in scope each year with this year June 16-22 being designated by\u00a0U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a044 governors<\/strong>\u00a0as a week to celebrate and protect the nation\u2019s pollinating animals.\u201d)<\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Barb Elliot Pollinator Week* is a good time to watch, celebrate, and be thankful for pollinators.\u00a0\u00a0 After all, they are responsible for every third bite of our food and drink.\u00a0 They pollinate crops, trees, shrubs,\u00a0and flowers in our landscapes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,48,10,83,24,81,80,47,5,82,79,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardsfornature.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}