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From: Allison Savicz <ASavicz AT w5insight.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:25 AM
Subject: NC Botanical Garden: Saving Our Pollinators July 2015 Events/Programs
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Exploring the Value of Pollinators
July Programs: Illustrating the Benefits of and Challenges Faced by Our Pollinators
Now through October 3, 2015
Media Contact: Allison Savicz
(919) 923-2791; asavicz AT w5insight.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25, 2015
Chapel Hill, NC —The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s (NCBG) Saving Our Pollinators program series continues this July with a presentation on the Garden’s restoration activities, a hummingbird program for children, a reading of bee-related poems, and a program on bee species identification.
The Saving Our Pollinators program series, now through October 3, 2015, features 29 events, including exhibits, workshops, talks, tours, discussions, and classes that illustrate challenges and offer solutions to secure a stable future for pollinators, a group that includes bees, flies, butterflies, and moths.
Pollinators are critical to worldwide ecosystem health, including human nutrition and global food security. Most plants require pollinator assistance to produce seeds and fruit. About 80 percent of all flowering plants and one in three bites of food rely on pollinators.
Detailed information and registration online: www.ncbg.unc.edu/pollinators/
Saving Our Pollinators Events/Programs July 2015
Pollinator Habitat Restoration in NC Botanical Garden Nature Preserves
Johnny Randall, NCBG Director of Conservation Programs
Lunchbox Talk: Thursday, July 9; 12:00–1:00pm
Learn about NCBG’s restoration activities—monitoring pollinator diversity, creating nesting habitat, and prescribed fires—to manage and protect habitat for pollinators in our nature preserves. Free, pre-registration required
Little Sprouts “Hooray for Hummingbirds” – For Kids
Elisha Taylor, NCBG Youth & Family Education Manager
Saturday, July 18; 10:00am-11:00am
Share a morning with your little sprout learning about our pollinators through nature hikes, games, crafts, and stories. For age 3-5 with one accompanying adult. $10 each session ($8 members)
“Bee, I’m Expecting You” Poetry Reading
Jeffery Beam, Poet
Sunday, July 19; 3:00–4:00pm
North Carolina poet Jeffery Beam celebrates pollinators with readings of bee poems including from his own Life of the Bee and poems by Neruda, Plath, and Virgil, among others. $10 ($8 members)
Common Native Bees Slideshow and Garden Foray
Nancy Adamson, Pollinator Conservation Specialist
Sunday, July 26; 2:30–4:30pm
Learn about some of our most common bee pollinators, then walk the Garden to see who inhabits our native plants. Bumble, mason, mining, digger, sunflower, carpenter, hibiscus, and leafcutter bees are all easily identifiable when you take the time to look. $15 ($10 members)
About the North Carolina Botanical Garden
The North Carolina Botanical Garden, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a 1,000-acre assemblage of display gardens and natural areas and is nationally known as a center for the study, display, interpretation and conservation of plants. Educational, recreational, therapeutic horticulture and research programs extend opportunities for connection with nature to people of all abilities and backgrounds. Open seven days a week and admission is free. www.ncbg.unc.edu
Promotional images available upon request
100 Old Mason Farm Road • Chapel Hill NC 27517 • ncbg.unc.edu/pollinators/
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