How to Use pollinator in a Sentence

pollinator

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  • Over the past five years, much of what used to be short grass now bursts with food for birds and pollinators.
    — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The cityscape has become a hospitable home to the pollinators.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 July 2023
  • Only the female plants produce cones for use as hops (the male plants are the pollinators).
    — Barb Sands, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • There are also a lot of non-native pollinator plants that are great to use.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The flowers open from the bottom up, and are covered with pollinators.
    — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Families will take home a pollinator-friendly native plant at the end of the course.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
  • The first one counted the overall number of any kind of pollinator that flew into the rings and landed on at least one flower.
    — Jennifer Clare Ball, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The purple pollinator pictured on the right is under $5!
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • Just letting your grass grow, without the right weeds and flowers, does not provide any kind of food for pollinators.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
  • Fix that problem with convenient pollinator push-ups that'll have them all swarming the area in no time.
    — Brittney Morgan and Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2022
  • For a long time, the honeybee was characterized as a canary in the coal mine, an omen of catastrophe for the rest of the world’s pollinators.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Its chief pollinator is the eastern tiger swallowtail, one of the largest butterflies of the Northeast.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • The demonstration includes a tour of the farmstead and its pollinator garden.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Its tiny white, pink or purple flowers have a honey-like scent that pollinators love.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
  • Early pollinators love them, while bunnies and deer leave them alone.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Much of the work to improve pollinator habitats is focused on croplands, where the loss of bees and other arthropods brings about the most repercussions.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In that study, farmers planted corners and edges of fields with pollinator and bird habitat.
    — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • There is also an area for workshops and a pollinator garden.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
  • Between the lush plantings and the outdoor spaces, the designers ensured that the space is inviting to both pollinators and people year round.
    — Melissa Ozawa, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The spike in this warm spell has been somewhat subdued, perhaps because the earliest pollinators have already dropped much of their pollen.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The class, taught by nursery manager Thomas Baker-Rabe, outlines native plants that thrive in the region and provide food for pollinators in the fall.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • There are several beehives in the space and the farm attracts dozens of varieties of native bees and other pollinators.
    — Maria Geyman, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • Native mallow plants are great ways to bring color and pollinators to your garden.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Thirty-eight planters all made from upcycled items, filled with pollinator-friendly plants, are available to bid on.
    — Hartford Courant, 14 July 2022
  • The front yard is filled with California native plants and pollinators.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Friedman said the measure was intended to help the state’s struggling ecosystems and give a boost to butterflies and other pollinators.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • There will be a display of materials on pollinator pathways bees and butterflies in the hall.
    — Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Bees and other pollinators are critical to the global food supply, pollinating about a third of the world's crops and three-fourths of all flowering plants.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 July 2023
  • Butterflies and other pollinators flutter above the tall grass, and the bumblebees from her apiary hover among stalks of chamomile and milkweed.
    — Alice Newell-Hanson, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Bee safety — for us and the bees — is an important part of our coexistence, so much so that a human's life expectancy is linked to that of the pollinator's well-being.
    — The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023

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