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Garden tours, presentations, movies, scavenger hunts…the wide variety of events during Pollination Celebration! “week” in Asheville achieved our goal of reaching hundreds of adults and children. The collaboration with the […]

Pesticide sprayed on European linden trees to kill aphids have been confirmed as the culprit in recent mass die-offs of bumblebees in parking lot of Target store in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Mackensy Lunsford outdid herself in the article in “The Scene” about the Pollination Celebration! today. Here’s a pdf. For the most up-to-date information, go to www.beecityusa.org/pollinator-week.

Some of Bee City USA’s talented founders. Thanks to The Laurel of Asheville magazine and Leah Shapiro for publishing a lovely story about Bee City USA in its June issue:

Tune into News Radio 570 WWNC at 8:05 am ET on Saturday, June 8, to hear Ingles Dietitian Leah McGrath interview Phyllis Stiles of Bee City USA about upcoming Pollination Celebration! events

One week wasn’t enough time, so our program starts June 8 and continues through June 22. Read all about it here. We’re especially excited that on June 17 Dr. Doug Tallamy, author of

Join Bee City USA on Saturday, April 27, at Chimney Rock State Park from 11:00 to 3:00.   Hear all about it at 8:50 a.m. on April 25 and 26

Syrphid fly on spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana Bee City USA is very excited to finally be able to answer the frequent question from Ashevillians, “What should I plant to help the

Thanksgiving is the holiday most associated with food.  This article in the Asheville Citizen-Times encourages Americans to thank a pollinator during this year’s feast. Or you can read the full press

The 2012 Black Jar Honey Contest winners have been announced! On November 12 in downtown Asheville, NC, forty movers and shakers gathered to blind-taste 40 honey entries from as far