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UW’s Biodiversity Institute to Host Bee Jubilee June 29

woman with small wooden bee house, similar to a bird house
The Bee Jubilee, hosted by the UW Biodiversity Institute, is scheduled Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m.-noon. The event, which is open to the public, includes various activities and information about bees and other native pollinators. Here, Mason Lee, senior project coordinator for the Biodiversity Institute, poses with a bee house during the inaugural Bee Jubilee in 2022. (UW Biodiversity Institute Photo)

Native bees in Wyoming range from 0.1 inches in length -- smaller than a grain of rice -- to just over 1 inch in length, but all are extremely important pollinators of the state’s native plants. The University of Wyoming Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center will be all abuzz celebrating these important insects during the third annual Bee Jubilee Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m.-noon. The event is free and open to the public.

“There will be displays of vertebrate and invertebrate pollinator specimens, as well as opportunities to learn about native gardens; observe and identify, up close, pollinators in the ‘Berry Prairie’ garden; build a bee house to take home; and purchase native bee and plant guides,” says Mason Lee, senior project coordinator for the UW Biodiversity Institute, which will host the event.

Additionally, there will be a pollinator yoga class led by a UW group fitness yoga instructor from 10-10:30 a.m. on the tree deck outside the Berry Center. Yoga mats will be provided. A Habitat Hero workshop, led by Carol Bilbrough, a Wyoming Naturalist Program volunteer, is scheduled from 11-11:40 a.m. in the Berry Center auditorium.  

“Worldwide, over 75 percent of our major crop species benefit from invertebrate and vertebrate pollination,” Lee says. “Even crops that don’t need an animal pollinator produce a higher yield if they’re visited by native bees.”

Bee Jubilee event partners are UW Extension, UW’s Half Acre Recreation and Wellness Center, the UW Museum of Vertebrates, the Laramie Audubon Society and the Wyoming Naturalist Program.

For more information about the Bee Jubilee, call Lee at (307) 766-6240 or email mlee37@uwyo.edu.

About the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute

The UW Biodiversity Institute fosters conservation of biodiversity through scientific discovery, creative dissemination, education and public engagement. In this setting, scientists, citizens, students and educators come together to share a wealth of perspectives on the study and appreciation of biodiversity -- from microbes to poetry and ecosystems to economics. Learn more at www.wyomingbiodiversity.org.

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Phone: (307) 766-2929
Email: cbaldwin@uwyo.edu


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