Date: Saturday June 14Time: 12:00AM – 3:00PM CSTAudience: Public (All Ages)Location: Douglass Park (Champaign, IL)Description: Stop by and talk to the City of Champaign about their draft concepts of the Downtown Plan. Get information on pollinators, review and weigh in on pollinator-friendly goals for Downtown Champaign, and get a Downtown sticker or temporary tattoo. For […]
Date: Ongoing during Pollinator Week Time: 10:00AM – 6:00PM (Monday-Friday), 10:00AM – 5:00PM (Saturday), 12:00PM – 5:00PM (Sunday) Audience: Public (All Ages) Location: art coop, inc (Urbana, IL) Description: Art Coop, located inside Lincoln Square in Urbana, will have a pollinator themed display and coloring sheets for kids to color in person at a table […]
Date: Ongoing during Pollinator Week Time: 9:00AM – 9:00PM (Monday-Thursday), 9:00AM – 6:00PM (Friday-Saturday), 1:00PM – 5:00PM (Sunday) Audience: Public (All Ages) Location: The Urbana Free Library Description: Come get free seeds from The Urbana Free Library’s Seed Exchange to take home, plant, and grow. The Seed Exchange has seeds for vegetables, herbs, and flowers, […]
Date: Friday June 20Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM CST Audience: Public (13+ Preferred) Location: Ballard Nature Center (Altamont, IL) Description: Introduction to iNaturalist, short guided walk, and table with experts ready to help with identification. Drop in Pollinator/BioBlitz presentations at 10 am and 2 Pm. Sreelakshmi, entomologist and Horticulture Extension Educator, will be available the whole […]
Date: Wednesday June 18Time: 7:00PM CST Audience: Public (All Ages) Location: The Literary (Champaign, IL) Description: May Berenbaum, U of I Entomology department head, will give a talk about the less-known (but no less important) pollinators that rarely get the same buzz as the more well-known and well-loved pollinators.
Date: June 12 – June 27 (closed June 19 in observance of Juneteenth)Time: 9:00AM – 5:00PM (Monday-Friday)Audience: Public (All Ages)Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Urbana, IL)Description: Stop by and check out some rare books on pollinators on display at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library!
Date: Ongoing during Pollinator Week Time: Ongoing Audience: Public (All Ages) Location: Champaign-Urbana, Virtual Description: For the week of Pollinator Week, join East Central Illinois Master Naturalists and Champaign County Master Gardeners to use iNaturalist to observe, identify, and record pollinators or any insect throughout Champaign Urbana. How to participate:
Date: Friday June 6Time: 10:00AM – 12:00PMAudience: Public (All Ages)Location: Loda Prairie Nature Preserve (Loda, IL)Description: Tour the Loda Prairie Nature Preserve, where site stewards and volunteers hand-pollinate the Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid every year in hopes of success for this endangered Illinois species. Site Steward Beckie Green will offer private tours of the prairie […]
Date: Saturday June 14 Time: 8:00AM CST Audience: Public (All Ages) Location: Anita Purves Nature Center (Urbana, IL) Description: Open house style event with family-oriented hands-on activities about pollinators inside and outside the Nature Center.
Date: Wednesday June 18Time: 10:30AM CSTAudience: Private to 4H, Youth and ParentsLocation: Vandalia Little Community Garden (Vandalia, IL)Description: 1 hour lesson and Bioblitz activity. Any minor can sign up to attend the gardening club, of which this event is a part. Registration required.