Second Saturday at the Garden: Pollinator-protection Awareness and Strategies

June 10, 8:30am - 11:30am
Urban Garden Center, 955 Kamehameha Highway Pearl City, Hawaii 96782

The Urban Garden Center will be promoting pollinator-protection awareness and strategies at its Second Saturday at the Garden event on June 10 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

The program is coordinated by the Bee Hui, a group of trained volunteers who raise bees at the UGC and provide community education and outreach about bees’ and other pollinators’ essential services. Activities include

  • hands-on honeybee demonstrations by members of the UH Honeybee Project
  • displays about honeybees, native yellow-faced bees, and Kamehameha butterflies
  • and a monarch butterfly tent.
Keiki will be able to make a bee house. There will be a sale of pollinator-themed plants grown and contributed by the O‘ahu Master Gardeners, as well as honey fresh from the UGC hives.

Visitors can enter a prize drawing by making a pledge to protect pollinators by growing a variety of bee-friendly flowers that bloom year-round; protecting bees and caterpillars by providing bee nests and caterpillar host plants; avoiding using pesticides, especially insecticides; and talking to friends and neighbors about the importance of pollinators and their habitat.

All pledges will be entered into a drawing for pollinator-themed prizes.


Ticket Information
FREE

Event Sponsor
CTAHR, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Miles Hakoda, (808) 956-3093, mhakoda@hawaii.edu, https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ougc

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