Toronto is home to diverse pollinator communities that contribute to resilient ecosystems and enhance urban biodiversity. The habitat creation efforts presented in this strategy will support native bees and butterflies, and will also be beneficial to all pollinators, including honey bees.Evidence suggests that native bee species are more threatened than honey bees and may be negatively impacted by urban beekeeping activities due to resource competition and the spread of parasites and disease.Honey bees are managed by beekeepers, governed by the Ontario Bees Act, and they can be re-established when beekeepers experience a loss. Toronto’s diverse bee community consists of over 360 species of native bees and one species of managed bee, the European Honey Bee, which is not native to North America.Threats to Toronto’s pollinators include forage habitat loss, loss of larval host plants, nesting habitat loss, overwintering habitat loss, pesticides, introduced and invasive species, diseases/pests, and climate change.Toronto is home to a wide range of pollinators, including bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, moths, beetles, and birds.Toronto’s Pollinator Protection Strategy recognizes that: The Strategy identifies a set of guiding principles, six priorities and 30 actions that the City and community can take to protect our diverse native pollinator community. Download the Toronto Pollinator Protection Strategy. With the goal of protecting the more than 360 species of bees and more than 100 species of butterflies and other pollinators that call Toronto home, the City of Toronto has adopted a Pollinator Protection Strategy. PollinateTO grant applications are now open! Applications will be accepted until Wednesday, November 1.
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