Flowers and their friends - National Pollinator Week, Tx

Plants and animals exist in an extremely complex web of interconnections. Most flowering plants are pollinated by animals -- primarily insects. Pollinating insects are essential to our gardens, to most of the earth's flowering plants, and to people who are dependent, like every organism on the web of life.

There is overwhelming evidence that wild pollinators are declining. Fortunately, there are things that each of us can do to reverse this trend. National Pollinator week is intended to bring attention to the problem AND what we can do: plant native plants, with blooming times that overlap, offer habitats for insect nesting and egg-laying, provide habitats for hibernation and overwintering, and limit the use of poisonous chemicals.

For more information read: Pollinator Conservation Handbook, The Xerces Society in association with The Bee Works, by M. Shepherd, S.L. Buchmann, M. Vaughan, and S. Hoffman Black

Royalty-free music by Kevin MacLeod: The Rule, Running Fanfare, Prelude C-BWV 846. http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Ken Kramm purchased the license for Flight Of The Bumblebee from AudioMicro.com on 6/05/2010.

Photography by Ken Kramm: Canon Vixia HF S20 HD Camcorder, Canon PowerShot SX10 IS, IMovie09.

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• National Pollinator Week
• Conroe
• Texas
• ecology
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• spirituality
• web of life
• biofabric
• butterfly
• bee
• ant
• butterfly garden
• bee garden
• caterpillar
• Canon Vixia HF S20
• Texas Master Naturalist
• Ken Kramm

[Carnationhorse]

I would love to buy this on tape.

[KennethKramm]

@Carnationhorse Thanks for the complement! You can look at it any time you want on YouTube. Also, I plan to do additional pollinator videos this spring. Stay tuned.

[KennethKramm]

Whenever I look at the natural world, I notice that every creature is busy, hard at work. Amazing! They can teach humans a few lessons ...

[swaintx]

Very nice. The butterflies and bees are working hard. Pretty display of flowers.