Wildlife Matters!!! All wildlife species plays a vital role in our ecosystem.
Wildlife recording is very important for conservation. Through recording and monitoring we learn where species can be found, how the population is doing and can also be an indicator of environmental changes.
A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower. This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains. List of Wildlife Pollinators:
Insect Pollinators:
1) Bees - honey bees, solitary species, bumblebees
2) Pollen Wasps - Masarinae
3) Ants
4) Flies including Bee Flies and Hoverflies - a species of fly called a midge is one of the pollinators of the cocoa tree
5) Mosquitoes
Lepidoptera:
6) Butterflies and Moths
7) Flower Beetles
Vertebrates:
8) Bats
9) Birds - Hummingbirds, Honeyeaters and Sunbirds
Mammals:
10) Monkeys
11) Lemurs - the black and white ruffed Lemurs is the largest pollinator in the world
12) Possums - Honey Possum
13) Rodents
Amphibians:
14) Lizards
15) Others
Circle of life. Nature's way of taking and giving back life to earth. It symbolizes the universe being sacred and divine. It represents the infinite nature of energy, meaning if something dies it gives new life to another. - Collins Dictionary
Wildlife recording is very important for conservation. Through recording and monitoring we learn where species can be found, how the population is doing and can also be an indicator of environmental changes.
A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower. This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains. List of Wildlife Pollinators:
Insect Pollinators:
1) Bees - honey bees, solitary species, bumblebees
2) Pollen Wasps - Masarinae
3) Ants
4) Flies including Bee Flies and Hoverflies - a species of fly called a midge is one of the pollinators of the cocoa tree
5) Mosquitoes
Lepidoptera:
6) Butterflies and Moths
7) Flower Beetles
Vertebrates:
8) Bats
9) Birds - Hummingbirds, Honeyeaters and Sunbirds
Mammals:
10) Monkeys
11) Lemurs - the black and white ruffed Lemurs is the largest pollinator in the world
12) Possums - Honey Possum
13) Rodents
Amphibians:
14) Lizards
15) Others
Circle of life. Nature's way of taking and giving back life to earth. It symbolizes the universe being sacred and divine. It represents the infinite nature of energy, meaning if something dies it gives new life to another. - Collins Dictionary