Pre-registration required.

Cost: $25 (25% off for BGA Members)

Ever heard the expression, “There’s someone out there for everyone?” Co-evolution took care of that for plants and their pollinators over millions of years. That’s why flowers come in all shapes, sizes and colors and so do their pollinators!  You’ve also heard, “Timing is everything.”  Also true of when flowers and their pollinators emerge. This class celebrates that biodiversity.

Instructor

Phyllis Stiles is founder and director emerita of Bee City USA®. The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign named Stiles “Pollinator Advocate of the Year for the United States” in 2015, the same year the sister program, Bee Campus USA, launched. To date, more than 425 cities and campuses in 47 states have joined the Bee City and Bee Campus USA networks, which became initiatives of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 2018. Stiles has made well over a hundred presentations and published countless newspaper and magazine articles about pollinator conservation across the nation. She spent her career at universities and non-profit organizations serving communities from West Africa to the Mississippi Delta, in fields ranging from natural resource and farmland protection to fundraising. Today, Stiles is as excited to inspire individuals and communities to create climate-resilient, connected pollinator habitat as she was when she launched Bee City USA in 2012.

Photo of bumble bee on blueberry by Nancy Lee Adamson