Bee Activity in Baltimore, MD Garden

Butterfly Quilt Display at NC Arboretum in Asheville, NC

June 20 – 26 is National Pollinator Week. National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them.

Nine years ago the U.S. Senate unanimous approved and designated a week in June as “National Pollinator Week”. National Pollinator Week is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of the Interior. It marks a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations.

For science teachers, this is an excellent way to get children involved. Pollinator Week has now grown into an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. Pollinators provide many ecosystem services. Choose the plants that can improve the plight of pollinators. There are lists of favorite pollinator and butterfly larvae feeding plants on this website and others. I highly recommend information published by the Xerces Society.

It’s time to celebrate! Check out: Find Events – It’s never too early to start thinking about an event at your school, garden, church, store, etc. Pollinators positively affect all our lives, supporting wildlife, healthy watershed and more… let’s Conserve and Protect it! Have a positive influence on our environment! Become a smart gardener.

If you’re hosting an event for Pollinator Week, you might want to register it with the Pollinator Partnership, which has a map of local events. http://www.pollinator.org/pollinatorweek/