Protecting Wild Bees: Workshop and Film
Wed Jul 13, 2016, Ottawa, ON (and Sunday too)
Join Friends of the Earth Canada at Fletcher Wildlife Garden at 7-8PM on Wednesday, July 13th and 9-11AM on Sunday, July 17 to learn how to protect native and wild bees. Includes a showing of a new documentary film (A Ghost in the Making: Searching for the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee) and a tutorial on how to participate in the Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count. On Sunday, we will be going out into the garden to practice taking photos of and identifying bees. Everyone is welcome! http://www.ofnc.ca/fletcher/
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/1btYHcY9S3J2
Bee-friendly links & resources:
- Bee-friendly, Pollinator-friendly gardening
- Native plant gardening
- Backyard biodiversity
- Organic gardening
- Alternatives to lawns
- Restoration ecology
- Pollination Canada
- What’s poisoning the bees? Neonicotinoid Fact Sheet
- Organic jobs & volunteering
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