{"id":5725,"date":"2021-06-22T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthworksjax.com\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T09:13:54","slug":"international-pollinator-week-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthworksjax.com\/gardencenter\/international-pollinator-week-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"International Pollinator Week: June 21-27, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Let’s Celebrate Pollinators!<\/strong> International Pollinator Week is June 21 -27, 2021. There is so much to cover about these invaluable garden friends. Let’s get started!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Why do we need pollinators?<\/strong> Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food.<\/strong> They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce. Pollinating animals travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their bodies in a vital interaction that allows the transfer of genetic material critical to the reproductive system of most flowering plants \u2013 the very plants that<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n