On May 14, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Mark Docherty opened a new exhibit at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) titled 鈥淚nsects, Flowers and Food.鈥�
Flowering plants and insect pollinators, mainly bees, play important roles in producing much of the food consumed by humans worldwide. Bees pollinate a large number of flowering plants鈥攆ood sources that humans and other animals rely on.
Visitors to the RSM鈥檚 latest exhibit can explore the relationships between plants and pollinators from the time dinosaurs roamed Saskatchewan to the present day.
鈥淭his exhibit teaches us about the importance of bees and other insects, including those we find here in Saskatchewan,鈥� Docherty said. 鈥淚t also sheds light on the important research conducted by RSM scientists and I鈥檓 sure it will help the museum attract new and returning visitors over the summer months.鈥�
鈥淭here are more than 230 species of bee, and many other pollinating insects, in Saskatchewan,鈥� RSM Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Cory Sheffield said. 鈥淢any of them make significant contributions to the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops in the province.鈥�
The exhibit will be on display at the RSM until the fall of 2015. The pollination exhibit will then start touring the province.
