[Pollinator] Daniels County. Montana - Girl Scouts celebrate National Pollinator Week

[Ladadams at aol.com]

Girl Scouts in Daniels County Celebrate 
Pollinator Week

June 24-30, 2007 was designated National Pollinator Week by U.S. Senate 
Resolution 580 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 
For the past three months, Girl Scout Troop 202 has been learning how 
pollination is vital to the survival and the existence of nearly all ecosystems on 
earth.     At least 80% of the world's plants depend on pollination. Pollinators 
include, bees, flies and other insects; hummingbirds, bats, and butterflies.  
 They are indispensable partners for an estimated 1 out of every 3 mouthfuls 
of food, spices and condiments we eat, and the beverages we drink. Pollinators 
are essential to the fibers we use, the medicines that keep us healthy, and 
more than half of the world's diet of fats and oils.
Wednesday, June 20th, the Scouts dined at the Ponderosa Café in Scobey and 
celebrated National Pollinator Week by eating food and beverages created with 
the help of pollinator animals.   The meal included smothered beef burritos, 
hamburger and fries, chicken strips and chips, pita cheese pizzas, chicken salad 
and fruit beverages.   These healthy foods were created with the help of:
 
Beef – beef cattle are fed bee pollinated alfalfa 
Cumin, Cilantro-bees
Lettuce, tomatoes, pickles-bees and insects
Onions, garlic & chili pepper – bee and fly 
Cheese-dairy cows are fed bee-pollinated alfalfa
Potatoes - bee 
Avocado – bee, fly, and bat 
Sesame seed-wasp
Fruit-bee, fly, bat, and other insects
After the meal, Scout Leader Shirley Reller reviewed a proclamation to 
Governor Schweitzer, stating the girl scouts commitment to pollinators in Montana.   
 The proclamation supported the Governor declaring June 24 through 30th   “
Pollinator Week” in Montana .   
The scouts weren’t done celebrating yet!   They planted flower pots for the 
front steps and seating area at the Daniels Memorial Hospital.   Flowers were 
planted that bloom throughout the summer and into the fall so the pollinating 
insects, birds and mammals would have a stopping point on their migration route 
through Scobey. The plants were donated by Kerstein’s and Nana’s Greenhouse. 
  The potting soil and compost were donated by Grain Growers/Cenex.
The girls ended their day by checking out the Wildlife Habitat Incentive 
Program Project they participated in at the abandoned city lagoon.   As partners 
with NRCS and the Youth for Wildlife Program they planted pollinator-friendly 
native trees, shrubs, grasses and forbs.   The girl scouts decided that the 
grass had grown at least two feet and the trees and shrubs on the upland site 
were doing well.   Only two trees survived out of the 20 planted at the rivers 
edge.   It looked like there were beavers at large!
The girls ended their day enjoying their bat- pollinated banana covered with 
fly- pollinated chocolate.    
The U.S. Postal Service will issue the new Pollination stamp series on 
Friday, June 29
 


Laurie Davies Adams
Executive Director
Coeovlution Institute
425 Washington Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
415 362 1137 (p)
415 362 3070 (f)
LDA at coevolution.org
www.coevolution.org
www.nappc.org
www.pollinator.org


Bee Ready for Pollinator Week - June 24-30



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