Build a Mason Bee box
April 28th, 2019What can you do to help pollinators? Learn how to make a bee box that works for Mason Bees, the pollinators of our early-blooming fruit trees. Materials will be ...
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Secret superheroes of pollination
April 26th, 2019City of Ottawa Wildlife Speaker Series Speakers: Jessica Forrest and Jeff Skevington Join us at this first-of-the-season Wildlife Speaker event. We’ll be ...
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Plant it and they will come: create your own pollinator garden
April 14th, 2019Help bees and butterflies by creating your own pollinator garden. Discover what they need, how to choose and grow native plants, and how to plan and maintain a ...
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Creating a garden for Monarch butterflies
April 9th, 2019Monarch Teacher Network members, Johanna Cutts, Joan Harvey, and Mary Ash, will be giving a presentation on creating a garden for this iconic species at the West ...
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First WPP colloquium
March 3rd, 2019Join us to talk about pollinators and how we can help them in 2019!
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Wildlife in winter
October 24th, 2018The City of Ottawa’s next wildlife speaker will be naturalist and professor Mike Runtz talking about what happens to wildlife in winter. Come and see us in the ...
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Mason bees homes – moving house
October 21st, 2018In April, we held two workshops to build homes for mason bees, i.e., places for the adults to lay the eggs that would be the next generation of these important ...
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Bee Hotel Workshop
September 16th, 2018At the Bee Hotel Workshop, you will learn about bees, wasps and other mini beasts as Dr. Rob Longair explains their important role in the natural world and the ...
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Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count
August 31st, 2018Canada’s wild native bees are in trouble – can you help? Friends of the Earth’s Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count takes place annually during July and August, ...
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