Pollinators: Why they Matter, Neonicotinoids, and What You Can Do to Encourage Native Pollinators

Birds, bats, bees, monarch butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food. Pollinators sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce. Learn other intriguing pollinator facts and the increasing threats they face as their populations collapse. How can you improve life for pollinators in your own garden? Learn all this and more on this edition of Voices of the Valley Floora and Fauna! Photo: Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulata) and Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus insularis) R. Gaylord