🐝Bee a citizen scientist.
🌻Choose a plant blooming in the butterfly or wildflower gardens at the Gainesville Garden Club.
⏱️Set a timer for 15 minutes and count insects that land on your plant.
🪲Instructions will be given on how to tell 4 types of bees, flies, butterflies and other insects apart.
📲Upload your counts to the Great Southeast Pollinator Census.
🧑🧒🧒Familes are welcome and are expected to supervise children and their insect counts.
😎Pollinators prefer plants in the sun so wear a hat and reading glasses if you need them.
🪰Learn to share your space with pollinators, some of the “small things that run the world.”
🎟️Admission and parking are free. Garden surfaces are unpaved and uneven.
