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Make your Garden a Certified Wildlife Habitat!

ByChristina

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Pollinators are rapidly declining and we need them to survive. Make your garden a certified wildlife habitat and help pollinators thrive. It’s the best thing you can do with your land! Find out more about gardening for beginners here.

Bumblebee on a sunflower and a monarch butterfly fresh from the chrysalis on a zinnia

There are many types of pollinators. Most of the time when we think of the word, we think of bees, and bees are in trouble, but there are many other species including birds, butterflies, wasps, and flies that do much of the pollinating work as well.

wildlife habitat, butterfly on zinnias

One out of every three bites of food consumed in America comes from a plant visited by a pollinator. These crops include:

  • Stone fruits
  • Melons
  • Strawberries
  • Potatoes
  • Pumpkins
  • Apples
  • Almonds
  • Blueberries
  • Avocados
  • Cucumbers
  • Onions
  • Grapefruit
  • Oranges