We had a large pollinator garden added to our front yard earlier this year. We were one of several yards in Minnesota that were awarded a grant to plant pollinator-friendly native plantings to help our pollinators. And our new garden is active! Several types of bees, monarch butterflies, swallowtail butterflies, hummingbirds and various pretty moths. (Here is the Trembler Butterfly Brooch shown above)
Three years ago I spotted a rusty patched bumble bee in our backyard garden. The rusty patched bumble bee is the Minnesota state bee; They are listed endangered status. Our new pollinator garden is loaded with bumble bees and I am keeping an eye out for the rusty patched. And did you know flies pollinate several flowers! Coro made several fly pins in the 1940's and early 1950's. You often find flies buzzing around daisies.( It could be fun to wear a pair of Coro sterling fly scatter pins around a daisy flower brooch).
Here is a video I made of vintage bee and butterfly pins from the 1940’s through the 1970’s: