City of Norman Pollinator Week

Mon, June 20, 2022 - Sun, June 26, 2022
12:00 am


Celebrate pollinators during Pollinator Week with several great activities!

June 20, 2022, at Prairie Creek Park (2025 Pendleton Dr.) – 10 AM: Oklahoma Monarch Migration member, Scott Peake, will lead a milkweed planting tour.

June 21, 2022, online – Noon: Dr. James Hung, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory & Oklahoma Biological Survey, presents the webinar, “Fantastic Bees and How to Save Them”. This webinar will signal the start of the bee photographic contest whereby participants will learn how to take great pictures of bees and then can submit them for conservation and monitoring efforts. Email Michele Loudenback or call the Environmental Services Division (405-292-9731) for more information.

June 22, 2022, at Central Library (103 W. Acres) – 6:30 PM: Help us weed the amazing natural gardens of the Central Library to help prepare for Sunday’s talk.

June 23, 2022, at Eastwood Park (1001 S. Ponca) – 7:00 PM: Tour the Eastwood Pollinator garden and learn ways to improve your landscape for pollinators with Red Earth Sierra Club and USDA.

June 24, 2022, at Saxon Park (3016 36th Ave SE) – 8:45 PM: Take a Moth Walk with Moth Team Naturalist, Zach DuFran.

June 25, 2022, at Prairie Creek Park (2025 Pendleton Dr.) – 10 AM: Join Courtney Deklab-Myers, OSU Extension, for “Weed and See” at one of our newest pollinator garden installations, and then lend a hand with weeding, cleaning up trash, or both.

June 25, 2022, at Saxon Park (3016 36th Ave SE) – 2 PM: Join Dr. Hung, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory & Oklahoma Biological Survey, on a bee identification walk.

June 26, 2022, at Central Library (103 W. Acres) – 1 PM: Join Amy Buthod, Heritage Botanist for Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory, for a pollinator tour of the Central Library gardens.

Join us, as we celebrate our extremely important pollinators and offer suggestions to help protect and conserve them!

Location
City of Norman
Various locations
Norman, OK

https://www.normanok.gov/residents-visitors/environment-and-conservation/green-norman

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