Thursday Night Nature: Pollinators and Pollination Strategies (Virtual Program)

Many plants depend on the assistance of a third party, usually an animal, to help them successfully achieve pollination. How do plants entice visitors to their flowers and manipulate them to carry pollen to another plant of the same species?  We’ll learn about some of the many potential pollinators of native plants, including bees, flies, wasps, beetles and birds, and the strategies plants have evolved to achieve successful pollination by taking advantage of these flower visitors.

Presented By: Mary Anne Borge
Mary Anne Borge is a naturalist, photographer, author and educator.  A naturalist at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve since 2006, she is a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist and the associate editor of Butterfly Gardener magazine.  She is the team leader for Lambertville Goes Wild, a volunteer group that successfully led the City of Lambertville to certification by the National Wildlife Federation as a community wildlife habitat.  At her blog, the-natural-web.org, Mary Anne writes about and illustrates with her photography the importance of native plants to all life.