Bulbs, spring ephemerals and spring blooming fruit trees are visited during this time. Spring: Pollinators need early blooming plants to provide food after hibernation or northern migrations. Continuous blooms throughout the growing season provide pollinators with a constant food supply. Plants evolved with differing flowering times that decrease competition among pollinators. Successful pollination requires year-round efforts. Bees bite the anthers, hold tight, and buzz to shake the pollen out of the flowers.īumblebees are living tuning forks, using a middle C tone to propel thousands of pollen grains from a flower in under a second. The fertilized flower later yields fruit and seeds.ĭo you know why some bees buzz? Some plants like tomatoes and blueberries release their pollen through two tiny pores in each anther. The pollinator then take this pollen to another flower, where the pollen sticks to the stigma (the female part). Pollen from a flower’s anthers (the male part of the plant) rubs or drops onto a pollinator. Pollination is an essential part of plant reproduction. Do you know which foods depend on pollination? All of these and MORE! Apples, Almonds, Oranges, Avocados, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Alfalfa, Blueberries, Vanilla, Cranberries, Tomatoes, Kiwi, Figs, Coffee, Strawberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Lemons, Limes, Eggplants, Kumquats, Nectarines, Grapes, and Cacao. One in three bites of food you eat depends on pollinators. Pollination is important for a strong, healthy ecosystem.

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