Category: Pollinators
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4 Tips to Help Pollinators from Your Home in the City
This post was originally published on August 8, 2011, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). If you have as little as a windowsill on which to hang a planter, you’re off to a good start! Select a low-growing plant native to your region so it won’t get too large and heavy for the…
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Top 5 Ways to Help Pollinators
This post was originally published on September 9, 2011, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). Want to help conserve pollinators but don’t know where to start? Here are some ideas:
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Pollinators in Georgia: Butterflies & Moths
This post is part of an article I submitted for publication with a Georgia magazine called “Coastscapes” in 2010-2012. I’ve been unable to find this magazine online, but want to share the content for your educational enjoyment. The magazine was geared towards the general public, so there are no references to research articles. Feel free…
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Pollination Glossary
This post was originally published on July 6, 2011, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). I thought it might be helpful to create a glossary of pollination-related terms, so here goes! Anther: male plant structure on/in which pollen is located. Bract: structure that typically protects a flower bud as it develops, composed usually…
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What is Pollination?
This post was originally published on May 13, 2011, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). In brief, pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma. But what does all that mean? To understand it fully, we need to go into a bit of plant reproductive biology… Not all plants…
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Pollinators in Georgia: Bees
This post is part of an article I submitted for publication with a Georgia magazine called “Coastscapes” in 2010-2012. I’ve been unable to find this magazine online, but want to share the content for your educational enjoyment. The magazine was geared towards the general public, so there are no references to research articles. Feel free…
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A Case Study in Using Social Media as an Outreach Tool
I created a pollinator-focused blog as part of my doctoral work (in 2011-2012) and explored the numbers, diversity, and engagement of visitors from all over the world. The overwhelming conclusion was that social media can be a cost-efficient and effective method of spreading environmental awareness. This research is no longer suitable for publication in peer-reviewed…
Athena Rayne Anderson 