Celebrate Nebraska's pollinators June 17-23, 2024!
Pollinator Week is a seven-day celebration across North America. Here in Nebraska, we make a special effort to promote and share our love and excitement for pollinators. Each year, Nebraska Game and Parks hosts “Nebraska Pollinator Week,” recruiting interested organizations across the state to register and host one or more pollinator themed events during this fun week. This year, Pollinator Week is June 17-23, 2024.
Nebraska Game and Parks will host the Nebraska Pollinator Quest, an effort to find and record as many pollinators as possible during the 2024 Pollinator Week.
Step 1: Find a pollinator (bee, butterfly, hummingbird, etc.)
Step 2: Snap a picture
Step 3: Upload to iNaturalist!
Other Nebraska Pollinator Week events are planned across the state. Find an event near you below.
| Event | Date & Time | Host | Location | Event website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native Plant Sale | June 15, 9 a.m.-noon | Nebraska Statewide Arboretum | Camp Brewster at Fontenelle Forest, 1313 Bellevue Blvd. North, Bellevue | More details |
| Pollinator Party | June 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | Nebraska Game and Parks | Schramm Education Center, 21502 W. Hwy 31, Gretna | More details |
| Free Pollinator Seeds at the Library | June 17, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. | Lied Scottsbluff Public Library | Lied Scottsbluff Public Library, 1809 Third Ave., Scottsbluff | |
| Lux Center for the Arts Summer Camp: Kids Art Smart – Pollinators | June 17-21, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. | LUX Center for the Arts | LUX Center for the Arts, 2601 N. 48th St., Lincoln | More details |
| Pollinators at Ponca State Park | June 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Nebraska Game and Parks | Ponca State Park, 88090 Spur 26 E, Ponca | |
| Native Pollinators and Honey Bees | June 19, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | Edgerton Exporit Center | Edgerton Explorit Center, 208 16th St., Aurora | More details |
| Wildflower Wednesday | June 19, 1-2:30 p.m. | Nebraska Game and Parks | Mahoney State Park, James Family Conservatory and Nature Center, 28500 W. Park Hwy. Ashland, NE | |
| Pollinator Scavenger Hunt with Conservation Nebraska! | June 21, 10 a.m.-noon | Conservation Nebraska | Conservation Nebraska Garden, 2630 Lizzie Robinson Ave., Omaha | |
| The Pollinator Alliance of the Heartland at the Gifford Park Neighborhood Market | June 21, 5-8 p.m. | Pollinator Alliance of the Heartland | Gifford Park Neighborhood Market, 520 N 33rd St., Omaha | More details |
| Pollinator Party! | June 22, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | Benson Bounty LLC | Benson Bounty, 6915 Evans St., Omaha | More details |
| Pollinators, Plants, and Prairie Pines! | June 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | Nebraska Game and Parks & Prairie Pines Partners | Prairie Pines, 3100 N. 112th St., Lincoln | More details |
| Bee House Making and Bee Keeping – Pollinator Identification | June 22, 2 p.m. | Nebraska Game and Parks | Lewis and Clark SRA, 54731 897 Rd., Crofton |
Or explore the Pollinator Week events map on the national Pollinator Week site.
Nebraska Game and Parks is dedicated to conserving all pollinator species, but we need your help. Explore our resources below or get involved in pollinator conservation.
There is an urgent need to track monarchs across their range over time to better understand and adjust conservation measures. Thanks to the Wildlife Conservation Fund, a community science project is ongoing to monitor regal fritillaries and monarch butterflies.
The Nebraska Bumble Bee Atlas is a community science project aimed at gathering the data needed to track and conserving bumble bees.
Monarch gardening is a very easy and rewarding activity and can even be completed in something as small as a flower pot! The recommended size of a monarch garden measures at least 100 square feet. However, plants and flowers can be incorporated into any mini-habitat in your garden, including as border plants along your vegetable gardens.
Monarchs are one of the most iconic pollinator species, but across North America, they are disappearing. Pesticide and herbicide use, deforestation of their wintering grounds in Mexico and loss of milkweed in the United States are three important reasons for their decline.
Nebraska Game and Parks is dedicated to conserving all pollinator species – including monarchs. To advance monarch conservation, we need more quality land management, more in depth research and more education for all residents.
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