Pollinators
In our native landscape, home gardens, crops and orchards of California pollinators provide an essential role in cultivating our plant life and food crops. About 75% of all flowering plants rely on animal pollinators and over 200,000 species of animals act as pollinators. Of those, about 1,000 are hummingbirds, bats, and small mammals. The rest are insects such as beetles, bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, and moths. - learn more at http://pollinator.org/
Helping Pollinators
Plant for pollinators. Create pollinator-friendly habitat with native flowering plants that supply pollinators with nectar, pollen, and homes.
Design your garden so that there is a continuous succession of plants flowering from spring through fall. Check for the species or cultivars best suited to your area and gradually replace lawn grass with flower beds.
Plant native to your region using plants that provide nectar for adults plus food for insect larvae, such as milkweed for monarchs. If you do use non-native plants, choose ones that don't spread easily, since these could become invasive.
Select old-fashioned varieties of flowers whenever possible because breeding has caused some modern blooms to lose their fragrance and/or the nectar/pollen needed to attract and feed pollinators.
for more tips check out the 2018 Pollination Fast Facts Guide
Find out more about pollinators
As biotic communities form, pollinators swap one plant for another UC Berkeley researchers help create a clearer understanding of how networks of plants and pollinators form over time to create biotic communities.
Selecting Plants for Pollinators Regional guide for Central Valley Gardeners, Farmers, and Land Managers
CaliforniaPlantList_web.pdf