The butterflies come from caterpillars.
They fly and spread love ❤️ over the garden.
They help make more plants, flowers, and trees.
They bring lots of colors to spring!
I love spring! ❤️
Butterflies by Sooah
Hummingbirds: The Hungry Pollinators by Reed
Within the avian world, one of the best pollinators is the tiny hummingbird. Found only in North and South America, there are 360 different species of hummingbirds. These amazing birds range in size from the smallest bird in the world, the Bumblebee Hummingbird which only reaches about 2.4 inches, to the Giant Hummingbird which can be as long as 9 inches.
Every single hummingbird is a pollinator, meaning they take pollen from one plant to another effectively fertilizing the plant and allowing it to produce seeds. Much of a hummingbird’s diet consists of nectar that it sips from flowers, and also small fruit flies that it catches. When a hummingbird sticks its bill into a flower to drink the nectar, pollen from the flower can stick to its head and bill. The pollen is then be brushed off of the hummingbird when it feeds on another flower, creating pollination.
When pollen gets spread around, plants produce more seeds, are healthier and even create fruit. Planting brightly colored flowers like Trumpet Vine, Bee Balm, Sage, Lupine, Lilies, and more can help hummingbirds get the food they need to stay healthy and also help them spread pollen. Hummingbirds burn so many calories while beating their wings at 70 times per second that they need to eat about every 10 minutes. And when a hummingbird is hungry it can visit anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 flowers every day.
Hydrophily by Bridger
Water can be a pollinator. It is known as hydrophily.
There are two ways that water can pollinate.
1. Surface pollination. A plant will distribute pollen on the surface, where the pollen will drift down stream to another plant. A good example of this is the vallisneria spiralis, or Tape grass, whose female plants temporarily reach up to the surface to make sure that it gets pollinated.
2. Submerged pollination. The plant will release pollen that is heavier than the water around it. After it is released, the pollen finds its way to a second plant. A plant that does this is the Najas guadalupensis, or southern water nymph, whose male plants release pollen grains that drift through the water. The pollen grains are then caught by a female plant.
Butterflies by Gabriel
Babies can’t fly
And have four weeks
Until they die
Goodbye
Oil on our hands can kill
Don’t touch!
But still
Butterflies are amazing
Ladybugs by Sooah
In spring, ladybugs come out.
They help grow the trees.
They also help with plants and flowers.
They live in the garden.
They help you!
Hummingbirds by Micah
Hummingbirds have a colorful style
Which makes seeing them worthwhile
They are pollinators
And flower dominators
Hummingbirds visit 1000 flowers a day
So when it gets cold they can fly away
It slurps nectar with its beak
And eats 80.5 times its weight in a week
WHY THE BATS ARE AWESOME! by Andor
BATS, BATS, BATS, THE CRITTER OF THE NIGHT.
BATS, BATS, ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT.
BATS, BATS EAT MOSQUITOES IN THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT.
WATCH OUT… FOR YOU’LL GET A FRIGHT.
BATS! THEY USE CHIRPTEROPHILY TO POLLINATE!
BATS, BATS, BATS!
Caterpillar to Butterfly by Wyatt
When a butterfly is just born, it looks like a worm. In this stage, it is called a caterpillar. A caterpillar only eats leaves and grasses. In 5 to 20 days the caterpillar creates a cocoon and starts to turn into a butterfly. Once hatched, a butterfly eats the nectar of flowers. When it lands on a flower the pollen from the flower sticks to the legs of the butterfly and is carried to another flower. A butterfly can live up to 12 months and during that time they can migrate up to 7,000 miles (11,000 km).