Leo's Pollinators

The PollinHeads are helping out Paul and Janet from the University of Guelph Honey Bee Research Centre, who are looking at ways to help the bees live a long, healthy and sweet life.

Chloe and Housten are helping conduct research on the sugar-fuelled hummingbird. The PollinHeads team see just how much sugar the little bird can handle.

The mottled duskywing is the only butterfly on the endangered list. The PollinHeads head over to Marmora and lend a helping hand to Jessica and the Ontario Butterfly Recovery Team as they net, mark, and survey the butterflies.

Chloe and Housten work into the night at Rouge National Urban Park alongside Aaron from the University of Guelph, to get an up-close look at fireflies and see how they make their light. The adventure wraps up with a firefly light show.

The PollinHeads help expert Aaron Fairweather from the University of Guelph to collect samples and study the ant colonies to truly dig to the bottom of this pest-or-pollinator mystery.

Housten is on a mission with Mark Read at Murphy's Point Provincial Park to expand his impressive moth research, and he hopes to see lots of hummingbird moths.