ALL ABOUT POLLINATORS Madelyn Morris, M.S. in Education

APICULTURIST BOTANIST

What do these 2 professions have in common?

POLLINATOR VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiszdkOwuU

WHAT IS POLLINATION?

POLLINATION

WHY IS POLLINATION IMPORTANT?

BEES: APIS

There are 20,000 different kinds of bees! All bees are flying insects who collect pollen and nectar

from flowers. Some bees have stingers, some don’t. Only one kind of bee makes honey: Apis mellifera.

HONEYBEE

GIFTS FROM THE HONEYBEES

SCIENTISTS SAY THE BEES ARE IN TROUBLE!

Bees get sick from too many pesticides in the environment.

Bees don’t have enough habitat and different flowers to forage on.

Bees suffer from different pests and diseases.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP THE BEES?