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What did your survey reveal?

We all created our own column graph from our surveys and we have learnt a lot. So many of the insects were pollinating flowers, walking around, collecting food and some were just sitting on logs not moving at all. We learnt that each visit was different there are never the same insects and pollinators in the same spot, they are always moving and changing depending on the weather and seasons. We never realised how many pollinators are in the garden until we really started looking.

 

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Is your garden visited by a

range of pollinating insects.

In our School Garden we have a range of different pollinators. In fact we were able to document more then 14 types in our garden. These include Bees, Spiders, Moths, Flies, Ants, Worms, Ladybugs and more...

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What time of the day are they most active?

Looking at this graph it shows that insects are most active on VISIT 4. This means that insect are most active around 2 o'clock as our VISITS 1 and 2 were during the morning and Visit 3 was at midday. It also helped on visit 4 that it was a really nice sunny day with no clouds and no wind. Our lowest recording day was Visit 2 and it was cold and in the morning. It was also really windy. On this day there were a lot of ants out though . We only recorded up to 20 otherwise our Y axis would be too large.  

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Which part of the school are they particular active in?

The insects in our school are most active in the Kitchen Garden area and in the Quiet Area. This is because there are lots of native plants and bushes here as well as logs and compost.

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Could the area be improved?

Yes! Our School can always be better! We could plant more plants and more native plants. There is only one bug hotel in the whole school so we could make more. We have heaps of mulch which is not good for bees nesting so we could get rid of some of that. Slaters and bugs were on the logs so we could bring in more logs for our yarning circle.

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What are some great features that 

already make your garden well 

suited to supporting bees and 

other pollinators?

Our Garden has many native plants. We have a Kitchen Garden area with flowers, fruits and vegetables, We are a pesticide free school!!!! On Thursdays we have a Kitchen Garden club that meet at lunchtime and help keep our garden alive and flourishing. We also have a composting group who collect all our schools fruit and vegetables from our crunch and sip time. 

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