Spy Pollinators out the "Rear Window" (NJ Conservation Partnership)

After breaking his leg during a dangerous assignment, a professional photographer (Jimmy Stewart) is confined to his Greenwich Village apartment during a heat wave. He passes time by spying on his neighbors thru the “Rear Window,” focusing on a salesman (Raymond Burr) with a nagging, bedridden wife.

What Stewart doesn’t notice while spying out the Rear Window are the hard-working little creatures known as “pollinators” who flutter and fly from flower to flower. Crimson azaleas, blue and white fothergilla, pink buddleia, golden black-eyed Susans, sweet-scented magnolias and a rainbow of zinnias are visited by bees, butterflies, moths, other insects and birds to complete their jobs to pollinate.

Pollinators play a significant role in the production of over 150 food crops in the United States as an estimated 90% of flowering plants depend on bees, butterflies, birds and bats for pollination. Pollinators are critical to the production of most major food crops and they are virtually impossible to replace. The next time you bite into a juicy red apple, taste the tartness of cranberry juice, or decorate your stoop with a bright orange pumpkin, thank the busy little pollinator spied out of your “Rear Window.”

NJ Conservation Partnership
PO Box 330
Trenton, NJ 08625
Phone: 609-633-2549
Website: www.njacd.org

Designed by:
William Brash

Created by:
New Jersey Conservation Partnership
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
PO Box 330
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-5540
Richard Belcher

In Cooperation With:
Karen Rowe, Richard Belcher, Ines Grimm, Tim Thomas and Frank Calo

Year Established: 1938

Type of Business/Areas of Expertise: Conservation