Pollinator Presentation

Pollination 101

Minnesota Landscape ArboretumBee & Pollinator Discovery Center


Pollination 101

Pollination 101


20,000 and Counting/Diverse Bees


Diverse Bees


Flowers For Food and More

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The wild bees buzzing on flowers in your garden might be doing a number of things. Both male and female bees sip surgery nectar for energy. Only female bees gather pollen for themselves and their brood. They also collect flower resins and oils for nest building. The byproduct of all this dining frenzy is pollination, and the seeds that form, for our world’s flowering plants. Pollen is a plant protein, perfect for growing bees.

Female bees stock their nests with pollen balls that feed larvae as they grow from egg to adult.

Male bees have no nest to go home to. Look for them sleeping curled up in flowers or with their jaws clamped onto leaves.

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The wild bees buzzing on flowers in your garden might be doing a number of things. Both male and female bees sip surgery nectar for energy. Only female bees gather pollen for themselves and their brood. They also collect flower resins and oils for nest building. The byproduct of all this dining renzy is pollination, and the seeds that orm, for our world’s flowering plants. Pollen is a plant protein, perfect for growing bees.




Champion Pollen Movers/Pollen Lift


Wild Bee Real Estate


Wild Bee Real Estate Details


For a Bee-Friendly YardMany bee species are declining. Some are listed as threatened or endangered. Habitat loss is a prime cause, but together we can tip the balance for wild bees. Here’s how your own yard can play a part.

Keep the Flowers Coming� Plant for overlapping blooms from early spring into fall.� Plant for plentiful pollen and nectar.� Feature native shrubs and wildflowers.� Hold the pesticides.

Make Room for Nests� Keep a patch of bare ground, without mulch or plants.� Leave a twelve-inch stubble when you trim perennials after winter.� Start a ‘no-rake’ corner with a boulder, fallen leaves or old logs.� Provide stem bundles for nesting, and replace every two years

Photo credit: Courtesy Heather Holm Photo credit: Courtesy Heather HolmPhoto credit: Courtesy Heather Holm Photo credit: Courtesy Heather HolmPhoto credit: TBD

Sometimes things don’t go as planned . . .

Loners by LifestyleWhether they nest above or below ground, most wild bee species are solitary. A female bee spends her short adult life provisioning a nursery with pollen. She lays an egg on each pollen ball and seals her nest. The young are left to hatch, grow and emerge on their own a year later.

Bumblebees live in colonies that last a single season. The queen may choose an abandoned mouse hole, leaf pile or empty birdhouse. Her nest is built of wax pots holding nectar, pollen or growing larvae.

Photo credit: Courtesy Elaine EvansPhoto credit: Courtesy Dennis L. Briggs Courtesy Robbin Thorp

Above Ground LivingThe other third of Minnesota’s bees nest in cavities. Some chew into soft, rotting logs. Others find abandoned holes in dead trees. Still others use the hollow broken stems of last year’s wildflowers.

Below Ground NurseriesOver two-thirds of Minnesota’s bee species nest in the soil. Unlike wasps, they’re unlikely to sting. Some are even stingless. A female bee takes several days to dig her underground burrow, which can reach as deep as two feet!

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Reading Rail

Peak Intos

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If a cuckoo bee sneaks into another bee’s nest and lays her egg, the cuckoo larva has both a pollen loaf and the other unlucky larva to munch on.

Photo credit: Courtesy Heather Holm

Flip Graphic Top Peek Into Six:Bumblebee Nest

Photo credit:Courtesy Elaine EvansPhoto caption:Bumblebee nest

Photo credit:Courtesy Joel Gardner

Photo caption:Carpenter bee nest

Peek Into Five:Carpenter cross-section

Peek Into Four:Carpenter bee in stem

Photo credit:Courtesy Colleen SatyshurPhoto caption:Carpenter bee

Peek Into Three:Leafcutter in rock

Photo credit:Courtesy Heather HolmPhoto caption:Leafcutter bee

Peek Into Two:Ground Nester/Bee Poking Out

Photo credit: TBDPhoto caption:Mining bee

Peek Into One:Ground Nester/Tunnel

Illustration caption:Mining bee nest

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Honey Bees


Honey Bees


A queen is the mother of all workers, drones and future queens in a colony.

Lifespan: About 2-3 yearsJob: Lay eggs, as many as 1,500 daily

How many?Female worker bees run the hive. They raise the next generation, find and process food and other supplies.

Lifespan: About 6 weeksJob: Almost everything!

How many?Drones are male honeybees. A drone that mates with a queen in open air dies immediately. By fall, the workers evict any remaining drones.

How many?

Lifespan: About 8 weeksJob: Mate with Queen

Honeybee

As many as 60,000* honeybees live in a single hive. And each kind of bee has a special role to play.

Hive

Two compound eyes with over 6,000 lenses that see a different color range than we do

Antennae to smell, taste, check flight speed, monitor temperature and humidity

Four wings that beat 250 times per second,to fly forward, backward and sideways

Two hind legs with baskets of stiff hairs, to carry pollen back to the hive

Two front legs to clean antennae

Two middle legsthat brush pollen into pollen baskets

Honey stomachfor carrying nectar home

Two compound eyes with over 6,000 lenses that see a different color range than we do

Antennae to smell, taste, check flight speed, monitor temperature and humidity

Four wings that beat 250 times per second,to fly forward, backward and sideways

Two hind legs with baskets of stiff hairs, to carry pollen back to the hive

Two front legs to clean antennae

Two middle legsthat brush pollen into pollen baskets

Honey stomachfor carrying nectar home

Fold-out tongueto suck up liquid nectar,honey and water

The Incredible

The queen is an egg-laying machine, with little time for more. Worker bees run the hive, and their task list is long.

Workers build and repair the wax combs, tend to the queen, feed growing bees, guard the entrance, and more. Outside, they collect nectar, pollen, water, and resin from trees.

Worker Bee

Life Path

House Bee Days 1–18

Field TrainingDays 18-21

Field BeeDays 21–42

Any time off ?Even with so much to do, workers spend more time resting than working—as long as their colony isn’t under stress. When challenges hit, they ramp up to work harder (and die younger) to help the hive recover.

of a Worker Bee

How many? How many?

Honey Bees


Hiveon the InsideIt’s pitch black inside a hive. None of the bees can see. Yet its 50,000 residents constantly share reports on conditions inside and outside. This steady news? feed guides how each bee contributes to colony needs.

Whole BodyConversationsHoney bees buzz bodies, touch antennae, rub legs, and lick and smell each other to communicate. Much of the sharing is by chemical pheromones passed through the hive: guard bees (“Alarm!”), the queen (“I’m alive and well”), young brood (“Feed me!”)

The overall mix of messages creates a colony status report.

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Materials Natural Warm Tones

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Typography

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Copy color combinations

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Plants & Pollinators

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The wild bees buzzing on flowers in your garden might be doing a number of things. Both male and female bees sip surgery nectar for energy. Only female bees gather pollen for themselves and their brood. They also collect flower resins and oils for nest building. The byproduct of all this dining renzy is pollination, and the seeds that orm, for our world’s flowering plants. Pollen is a plant protein, perfect for growing bees.




The Incredible

The queen is an egg-laying machine, with little time for more. Worker bees run the hive, and their task list is long.

Workers build and repair the wax combs, tend to the queen, feed growing bees, guard the entrance, and more. Outside, they collect nectar, pollen, water, and resin from trees.

Worker BeeHiveon the InsideIt’s pitch black inside a hive. None of the bees can see. Yet its 50,000 residents constantly share reports on conditions inside and outside. This steady news? feed guides how each bee contributes to colony needs.

Sometimes Things Don’t Go as Planned . . .

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