Pollinators

A Pollinator Picnic: Stopping to Smell the Flowers

A Pollinator Picnic: Stopping to Smell the Flowers

National Pollinator Week June 19-25 is an annual celebration designed to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators and what we can do to protect them. Linda Suber has been celebrating bees, butterflies, flies, wasps, and hummingbirds in her Shandon garden for 15 years by planning and planting pollinator picnics. Menus vary by season and by pollinator preference.

Endangered Species Act: Rusty Patched Bumble Bee

Endangered Species Act: Rusty Patched Bumble Bee

Once an abundant pollinator in South Carolina, the rusty patched bumble bee was listed as a federally endangered species in 2017. As a social species, the queen bees are the only members of the colony to survive the winter, and they rely on flowers for food once they emerge in early spring.

Brittons Neck Demonstration Pollinator Garden

Thanks to a grant from Wells Fargo, SCWF joined together with Brittons Neck residents to install a pollinator garden. This new habitat will serve as a publicly accessible demonstration garden for visitors to replicate at their own homes and communities. The garden is located at the future site of the New Alpha Community Development Corporation’s Environmental Justice Training & Sustainability Center.