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Create Your Own Pollinator Garden

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Looking for a way to help our local pollinators beyond National Pollinators Week? Why not try planting a pollinator garden! Read on for some pollinator garden basics to help get you started.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Replay: Butterfly Fashion Show

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Regional Education Manager Julie has found an interesting gaggle of butterflies at Woodland Mound and tells us more about what makes each butterfly species unique.

European paper wasp on goldenrod

Coloring Page: National Pollinators Week | Wasp

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We’re giving you some fun coloring activities! In honor of National Pollinators Week, we’ll be sharing a coloring page featuring a different pollinator every day. The wasp may not be the first pollinator that comes to mind, but with several species of wasps, they help in different ways.

Coloring Page: National Pollinators Week | Butterfly

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We’re giving you some fun coloring activities! In honor of National Pollinators Week, we’ll be sharing a coloring page featuring a different pollinator every day. Today we’re featuring another important pollinator, the butterfly, that eats in the most interesting way.

A monarch butterfly enjoys the nectar of common milkweed.

Replay: Pollinator Garden Tour

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Go on a tour of the butterfly garden at Glenwood Gardens with Highfield Discovery Garden Manger Doug and Nature Interpreter Lisa and learn more about these important plants.

A honey bee sits on a purple coneflower.

Coloring Page: National Pollinators Week | Honey Bee

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We’re giving you some fun coloring activities! In honor of National Pollinators Week, we’ll be sharing a coloring page featuring a different pollinator every day. To kick things off, today’s coloring page features a pollinator that needs no introduction, none other than the honey bee.