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A third of the food and drink individuals consume depends on pollination. As a keystone group, the survival of many other plant and animal species depends on pollinators for their survival. Pollinators include bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, birds, and bats.
However, pollinator numbers have declined steadily due to habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation as well as insecticide, pesticide, disease, parasite, and invasive plant pressure.
To offset the loss of habitat, consider creating a pollinator garden, a stopping point for monarchs as each fall hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the United States and Canada to the mountains in central Mexico for the winter. They return in spring, specifically in May.
A pollinator garden is a garden that is planted predominately with plants that provide nectar or pollen for a range of pollinating insects.
To learn more about the importance of pollinators and pollinator landscapes visit HERE.