You Can Help Bring Back the Pollinators

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You too can help Bring Back the Pollinators! Although pollinator conservation is a big task, it all begins with each of us adopting four simple steps: growing pollinator-friendly flowers, providing nest sites and shelter, avoiding pesticides, and spreading the word. With these core values, you can create conditions to support the entire life cycle of pollinators in any location, whether you tend an urban community garden or a suburban yard, work in a city park or on a farm.
 
 

Four Simple Steps to Protect Pollinators

Grow Pollinator-Friendly Flowers

Flowers provide the nectar and pollen resources that pollinators feed on. Growing the right flowers, shrubs, and trees with overlapping bloom times will support pollinators from spring through fall.

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Provide Nest Sites

It is important to support all pollinator life stages, including eggs and larvae! For bees, leave patches of bare ground and brush piles, have plants and shrubs with hollow or pithy stems, or install nesting blocks. For butterflies and moths, plant their caterpillar host plants.

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Avoid Pesticides

Pesticides, especially insecticides, are harmful to pollinators. Herbicides reduce food sources by removing flowers from the landscape. Fungicides can also have negative effects on bees. There are safer ways to manage issues!

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Spread the Word

Make your commitment both official and visible by signing the Pollinator Protection Pledge! You can also share information about pollinators on social media, talk with your neighbors, or spread the word with a pollinator habitat sign or pesticide-free sign.



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Take the Pledge Today

Over nineteen thousand people have already signed the Pollinator Protection Pledge. Will you join them to help protect the pollinators in your community?
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Introducing a Printable Sign: Pollinator Habitat in Progress!

Over the years, many of you have asked for something temporary to help explain to your neighbors why your future pollinator habitat looks the way it does. Whether you’re smothering, tilling, or just waiting for the plants to establish, this printable sign can help you communicate that soon blooms will be abundant! This printable sign (18” x 24”) file can be downloaded and sent to a printing service of your choice.

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March 7

Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting our Pollinators

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Bring Back the Pollinators Pledge Q&A, Planting for Pollinators

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Spring Into Pollinator-Safe Gardening: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides

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