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Nature
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California-based Coevolution Institute joined with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to form the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. Today more than 90 organizations are part of NAPPC and its efforts to publicize the importance of conserving pollinators (www.nflppr.org).
On June 29, the U.S. Postal Service joined the pollinator campaign with stunning blocks of four stamps arranged in two different patterns. Each stamp features a different pollinator, including Morrison’s bumble bee of the Western states, the calliope hummingbird of Western high mountain meadows, the lesser longnosed bat of the Arizona desert and the Southern dogface butterfly.
Although none of the species shown in the stamps is regularly found in Virginia, the dogface butterfly periodically wanders north from its usual range in North Carolina and states farther South, to appear in almost any part of the Commonwealth.
What We Can
Do to Help
Although our native Virginia bats are not significant pollinators, they have other benefits - a single bat may consume up to 600 mosquitoes per hour. To encourage bats, you could put a bat house in a tree. Bat houses are sold with bird houses at many stores, and Bat Conservation International has information about how to build one (www.batcon.org).
Hummingbird feeders probably need no elaboration here, but don’t forget Fuchsias in hanging baskets, which are hummingbird magnets, and most importantly, the many
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