implant for pollinator habitatas our climate changes is so important - we have the opportunity to conform our educate surround to make way for more native pollinators . Researchers are hear more every day about how these essential creatures hold out and expand . During this National Pollinator Week , we ’re shining a bright spotlight on this important work and serving up several opportunities to hear more .

Conservation SpecialistJames Wolfinkicked off the week with a webinar on planting practices that gain pollinator and the environment ( imagine pocket planting , trees and shrubs , bee lawns , pollinator meadow and more ) . Today , U of M PhD scholar Julia Brokaw is sharing her inquiry onseed mixes and home ground restoration tipsfor indorse nesting bees . Colleen Satyshur and Thea Evans of theMinnesota Bee Atlasjoin the festivity tomorrow , highlightingstem - draw close bee ecology and preservation . And if you are n’t all bee(t ) by Friday , we ’re enfold up the jubilation with apollinator monitoringclass run by Dr. Elaine Evans , researcher and extension pedagog at the U of M.

Once you ’ve learned how to make home ground for pollinator , the next step is learning how to distinguish them . Last summer , I had the chance to attend a bee identification field of battle Clarence Shepard Day Jr. at Big River Farm put on in partnership with the University of Minnesota and theXerces Society . The course covered the 10 broad family of bee , plus flies , wasps and other insects that mimic bees .

I got to prove out my unexampled knowledge a duo weeks later during a pollinator inventorying event at a diversely implant property in Wisconsin . This spring , I joined theUniversity of Minnesota Bee Lab‘s bumble bee identification class ( and learn that more than 20 unlike kinds of bumble bee inhabit Minnesota ! ) . As the atmospheric condition warms , I ’ve been trying to practice these Modern identification skills , often contain my solvent using theiNaturalistapp .

The hort order is excited to bring you these opportunities to study and focalize your identification skill during National Pollinator Week . Once you ’ve bee(fed ) up your pollinator noesis , keep an eye out for in - individual pollinator monitoring events later this summer . All are welcome to join the fun at community of interests garden in the Twin Cities - don’t pretermit this luck to habituate your new acquisition .

Courtney Tchida is the hort society ’s community programs director . After earn a level in Environmental Horticulture , a master ’s in Agricultural Education and a certificate in Permaculture Design , she manage the University of Minnesota ’s student - run organic farm ( Cornercopia ) for 16 yr .

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