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The plants are pollinated by bees.
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The beneficial insects, like butterflies, moths, fireflies, and native bees, that pollinate your garden throughout the growing season require leaf litter to survive.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
The activity of pollinators also slows down in high humidity; bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects don’t move much when the air feels like a sauna.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
The bees have been helping to pollinate the plants in the facility’s fruit and vegetable garden which has contributed to the more than 400 pounds of produce donated to a food bank in Franklin since August.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
By contrast, the plants pollinated by animals were related to subtropical palms, silk-cotton trees and other plants that typically grow in dry tropical climates.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
The activity of pollinators also slows down in high humidity; bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects don’t move much when the air feels like a sauna.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
The bees have been helping to pollinate the plants in the facility’s fruit and vegetable garden which has contributed to the more than 400 pounds of produce donated to a food bank in Franklin since August.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
By contrast, the plants pollinated by animals were related to subtropical palms, silk-cotton trees and other plants that typically grow in dry tropical climates.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Pollinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pollinate. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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