Promoting Pollinators
We promote pollinators as an essential component to a healthy watershed. Bees and other pollinators are critical for sustaining ecosystems all over the world. In fact, they are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of the foods we eat! Most pollinators are insects, but they also include birds, bats, and small mammals. These creatures visit flowers to either drink nectar or feed off pollen. As they do so, they transport the pollen grains while moving from place to place. These critters provide this free, invaluable ecosystem service but they are increasingly being threatened by loss of their feeding and nesting habitats, pollution, misuse of chemicals, and a changing climate.








Check out these resources to learn how you can protect pollinators and their habitats!
Articles
· Teaching kids the importance of bees
Local Demonstration Gardens

· Colorado Native Plant Society
· Colorado Springs Utilities Demonstration Gardens - Self-guided activity stations, registration required.
· El Paso County Parks, Bear Creek and Fountain Creek Nature Centers
· Horticultural Art Society Demonstration Gardens
· Manitou Springs Pollinator Tours
Local Nurseries

Rick's Garden Center
Spencer's Lawn & Garden Centers
Harding Nursery
Summerland Gardens
Phelan Gardens
Don's Garden Shop & Landscape Materials
Britton Nursery

Partner Sites
· Audubon Rockies Habitat Hero
· Black Forest Honey: Black Forest Honey also provides bee and swarm removal services on a case by case basis.
· Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs
· Colorado Native Plant Society and the Southeast Chapter
· Colorado State Extension Office
· Manitou Springs Pollinator Project
· Manitou Springs Seed Library
· Pikes Peak Beekeepers Association
Videos
· Bring Back the Pollinators from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
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