The Growing Season, Sept 13, 2025 - Bugsense: Pollinators

What's with all the insect activity!?

Have you seen an upswing in insects in the garden of late?   Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland dive into an increased presence of pollinators on this week's episode of The Growing Season. 

Grasshoppers and bees kick the show off.  Do grasshoppers pollinate anything? You'll be surprised to know. 

Ants and Trilliums - there is a relationship there. Wasps and timber steps = stings for Matt. 

Jack tells the same 13 stories over and over.  This comes right in the middle of a conversation about almond pollination. 

What is creating seasonal allergies at this time of the year?  

The trio play "Imagine If You Will" and become bees.  3 of 1500 brothers and sisters. 

Speaking of bees, they dominate the second half of the first part of the show.  You'll come away with some knowledge...

"Sweet swelling..."

Bee food: zinnia, perennial geranium, sedum, coneflower, daisies, lavender, bee balm and golden rod are all some of the last meals for the bees before winter. 

Nanoscale ridges...WHAT!?

Moths get their time in the spotlight.  They are wonderful pollinators and do not get enough credit. 

How do they see at night? 

Emily McFarland and her spider features.

Pollination by lawn machine and pollination by GMC are giggled about. 

Building a bee hive features on Tips For Success From The Growing Season. Nuc's and what they are start the conversation off. 

Albert Einstein and his theories cap the show off. 

Tune in.

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