Sip, Pick, and Pack... How Pollinators Help Plants Make Seeds by Polly Cheney

Sip, Pick, and Pack... How Pollinators Help Plants Make Seeds by Polly CheneyFrom the Publisher: If more people read this book, nobody would be scared of bees. This heartfelt endorsement from a 9 year old reader explains why you should read this book with the children you love. Sip, Pick, and PackHow Pollinators Help Plants Make Seeds, teaches children about pollinators, and their crucial role in growing our food, in a really fun way. With 22 beautiful illustrations, and an engaging rhyming text, it appeals to both children

sweet nuts

Notable Wildlife Interactions: Like other oaks it hosts a wide variety of insects including multiple hairstreak butterflies

Trees also provide valuable rooting sites

sweet fleshed fruit of the same name

desert false indigo-bush and bastard indigo bush*

Hosts at least two species of aphids

Notable Wildlife Interactions: Hosts the ostrich fern borer moth (though it’s small range doesn’t not extend to Indiana) and at least one aphid

Named for its generally bright red fall foliage

Height: Up to 15’

flowers attract smaller bees and butterflies

but rarely reach such sizes this far north

but trees grow so tall that fallen petals are noticed more often than whole flowers