Pollinator Week Challenge

Bernardino Blue (Euphilotes bernardino)
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Beginning on June 20, National Pollinator Week honors the all the pollinators that are critical to our ecosystem. Pollinators perform a valuable ecosystem service and are critical to the success of plants after fires. Some pollinators may be more abundant after fire, following the flush of flowers. Pollinators may be flies, bees, butterflies, wasps, beetles, moths, ants, birds, bats, mice...wind and water don’t count for our challenge though.

This week is the start of Pollinator Week! Pollinator week is a way to learn, celebrate, and protect pollinators. This year, or CA Fire Followers Project will be doing another challenge to promote and celebrate Pollinator Week 2022.

Challenge Details:
Starting June 20-26, we encourage you all to go out and make as many observations as possible in any of the burn sites. Keep a close eye out for flowers being pollinated along your hike! This week, there will be an opportunity for 3 individuals to win a Fire Followers Pin! Here are the categories:

Most observations total:
Most observations of pollinators:
Most identifications of pollinators:

Thank you all for your continued support of our Fire Followers Project and be sure to check out other ways in which you can celebrate Pollinator Week this year!


From Pollinator Partnership, check out their website and their official resources to help you celebrate and promote your involvement in this year’s #PollinatorWeek!

https://www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week/pollinator-week-resources

Posted on June 20, 2022 08:02 PM by jaesparza11