{"id":2624,"date":"2024-06-12T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:37:06","slug":"pollinator-week-coming-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"Pollinator Week Coming This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"If you are gardening in the summer in Florida, consider planting or not digging up flowering plants in your landscape in honor of National Pollinator Week, which is coming June 17-24.<br \/>Pollinators are important for everything from the maintenance of healthy wildflower populations to aiding commercial fruit and nut tree production.<br \/>Although many people do not think much beyond bees when they think of pollinators, the list is longer.<br \/>Florida pollinators include many other kinds of insects including moths, beetles and flies as well as hummingbirds.<br \/>In other parts of the world, mammals ranging from bats to lemurs perform pollination duties.<br \/>According to pollinator advocates, nearly 80 percent of all flowering plants required pollinators to spread seeds, set fruit and maintain healthy populations.<br \/>This issue is particularly important in the context of documented declines in insect populations worldwide as a result of factors that include pesticides and habitat loss.<br \/>If you have flowering plants&#8211;including some you might consider &#8220;weeds&#8221; on your property, consider letting them alone, so they can continue to provide pollen to sustain butterflies, moth and other creatures that depend on nectar as a major food source.<br \/>This should extend to roadsides , which are often migration paths for pollinators.<br \/>This is particularly true in rural areas, where homeowners sometimes heavily mow the roadsides in front of their homes when less aggressive management could result in a more attractive landscape and great wildlife observation opportunities.<br \/><br \/>  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are gardening in the summer in Florida, consider planting or not digging up flowering plants in your landscape in honor of National Pollinator Week, which is coming June 17-24.Pollinators are important for everything from the maintenance of healthy wildflower populations to aiding commercial fruit and nut tree production.Although many people do not think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}