Pollinator Power! Take 2!

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We’re at it again and 58 bee boxes suitable for Alberta’s Native Bees have been produced for this year’s adventure! This year we expanded the adventure to make Bee Box kits for 3 grade one classes at FFCA – NWE and Girl Guides of the 163rd Calgary Unit to work on a citizen science project for their Lady Baden Powell Award. Last year, our boxes got out all around the province: Calgary, Canmore, Lake Louise, Red Deer, Edmonton and Rocky Mountain House! Have one in your backyard too!

While you’re at it, check out the Alberta Native Bee Council’s citizen science Bumble Bee Box Monitoring Program. They'd love to hear back from you about whether or not your bee box gets inhabited: there’s an easy-to-use form on that page you can use to let them know. They also have all kinds of other great info about bumble bees and other native pollinators!

Coordinator

Heather Hadden

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Why Join This Adventure?

Did you know that some of Alberta's Native Bee populations are really struggling? Our province is home to over 300 different native bee species. We can help the bees by planting native flowers in our yards and providing a space for a queen bee to make a colony. These bees are pollinators not honey bees. The 'honey' they produce is for the colony to survive through the season. Last year we had at least 3 boxes from the Pollinator Power! Adventure be colonized! Often it takes a few seasons for the box to weather to a point that the queen bee thinks it smells just right. It is exciting to help our pollinators do what they do best...pollinate!

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While pandemic restrictions have limited our Adventure and we won’t have an opportunity to meet together to learn about native pollinators, this Adventure – Pollinator Power! Take 2! is a self learning Adventure. We will give you some ideas about Queen Bees, their colonies, what they like and why it is so important to help them and for a minimum donation of $55 we will bring you a fabulous handcrafted bee nesting box filled with special raw cotton to attract a Queen. Our Adventure for Wilderness goal this year is to add 112 native bee nesting boxes throughout the province.

Boxes remaining: 20

Photo credit © Heather Hadden	Photo credit © Ruthanne Schraeder
Photo credit © Kathy Mutch	Photo credit © Susan Chivers

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Contact this coordinator:

by email at a4w@abwild.ca,
by phone at (403) 283-2025,
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