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Your garden is an ecosystem: an interacting web of organisms and their environment. Providing an environment that supports beneficial organisms means they will do important work for you, like pest control, pollination, and nutrient cycling.

British Columbia is home to an incredible diversity of flower visitors, including almost 500 species of native bees. Learn about the vital role that pollinators play in ecosystem stability, their diverse characteristics and how to identify them.

Providing food and lodging is the best way to support pollinator conservation. Learn how you can create habitat in your backyard or on your balcony, and explore our research data that reveals the most pollinator-attractive plants.

Most bugs are good bugs. Those that are seen as “bad” to gardeners are usually the ones that eat our plants. Gardening ecologically means welcoming the predators that can control these herbivores in your garden.

Explore our pool of resources — including guides, reports and videos — to learn more about pollinators and improve your gardening and restoration practices.