Spread out a rug and celebrate our magnificent pollinators with an Australian Pollinator Week picnic. Celebrate with friends or family- in your backyard or a local park.
Engaging citizen scientists across Australia to help researchers better understand the plight of Australia’s insect pollinators, providing important data for researchers and scientists to improve their understanding of the changes in insect abundance and diversity nationally and over time.
Celebrate Australia’s unique pollinators with music
Put on your dancing shoes, turn up the volume and listen to songs that celebrate Australian Pollinator Week!
Written and performed by the enormously talented Amelie Ecology and Reuben Ryan, it’s a celebration of our wonderful and diverse pollinators and is sure to get you all abuzz.
And check out the toe-tappin’ song from last year by Michael Fine.
Let’s celebrate together, raising awareness of the importance of pollinators and supporting their needs.
Inspiring community events
and participation.
Australian Pollinator Week acknowledges our important and unique insect pollinators during our southern spring (November). It is a designated week when community, business and organisations can come together to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators and support their needs.
Native stingless bee. Photo courtesy of Mark Berkery.
Green Carpenter Bee Conservation project.
The Green Carpenter Bee is a large iconic native bee species. It is beautiful jewel green in colour, and is friendly and harmless. The species is extinct on mainland South Australia and Victoria but still exists on Kangaroo Island. The species relies on soft wood to make its nests. However, extensive and repeated bush fires in conservation areas on Kangaroo Island have removed a large proportion of these soft wood nest materials thereby severely threatening the bee’s existence.
Rita the ‘reed bee’ is indigenous to Australia and could be any one of the 80 or so bee species within the genus Exoneura. She doesn’t make honey, but she is a very important pollinator.
Find out more about Rita and why she’s so important to us. Plus there are fun activities for the kids to explore and learn.
The inaugural Australian Pollinator Count will be held during Australian Pollinator Week this month, and community members across the country are being encouraged to take
Australian Pollinator Week launches next month and according to founder and native bee specialist Dr Megan Halcroft, it’s perfect timing. “For so many people, they’ve