Pollinator Week is back! Designated by the United States
Department of Agriculture, National Pollinator Week will run from Monday, June
17 through Sunday, June 23. Events will run throughout the week in an effort to
educate people about pollinators and their essential role in maintaining a
healthy ecosystem.
Monday, June 17, 7-9 p.m.
921 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Thursday, June 20, 6:30-9 p.m.
City Blossoms Garden at corner of 11th and Harvard NW
Friday, June 21, 10-2 p.m.
2th and Independence, SW
June 12 - 26
U.S. Dept. of the Interior: 1849 C St., NW
This celebration will recognize the importance of birds,
butterflies, bats, beetles, and, of course, bees! Honeybees are specifically
designed to carry pollen, which they consume as a source of protein. In flying
from flower to flower, bees drink nectar and collect pollen grains they store in
pollen-baskets on their hind legs known as scopa. In doing so, honeybees help to
transfer pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma,
initiating fertilization.
Pollinator Partnership has a full list of events.
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