- Bee-ing Allies | San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
At the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we plant native flora in order to provide year-round food sources for bees and other pollinators while reducing pesticide use Our teams also work tirelessly to foster awareness about these vital species and pollinator-friendly practices to protect them
- Bee | San Diego Zoo Animals Plants
It’s a bee-utiful world with bees: Bees can be both remarkable and fascinating to watch, from a distance! Give them their space, and they will go about their work assisting in flowering plant reproduction and bringing us tastier fruits and vegetables, PLUS fewer pests and a healthier habitat!
- A Pollinator Problem – San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Stories
This beautiful space is dedicated to helping sustain bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, flies, and beetles by providing a steady supply of pesticide-free nectar and host plants, as well as suitable living spaces for native bees Helping Pollinators A NATIVE BEE HOUSE AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO
- Powerful Pollinators | San Diego Zoo
Pollinators like bees, beetles, butterflies, and even bats play a major role in your favorite foods and the health of our ecosystems Many pollinators are on the brink of extinction, creating a serious issue for our food supply and our planet
- Bee | San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers
Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey to use as food
- Community Engagement - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
We foster ecological literacy and stewardship by building capacity within communities to support species conservation and coexistence between humans and nature We implement and build capacity for locally-managed, sustainable conservation programs using diverse, collaborative approaches
- Pass It On – San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Stories
These are corbiculae, often called “pollen baskets” or “pollen pants,” which serve as storage vessels for foraging bees Once covered in pollen, some bees actively comb it into the corbiculae with their legs Other bees, like leafcutter and mason bees, carry pollen on the underside of their abdomen
- Conservation Clip - San Diego Zoo
Visitors can watch arriving bees when they return to the hive with pollen and nectar gathered from flowers on Zoo grounds and in Balboa Park Bees are fascinating to watch, but give them space
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