How to be an insect: the unsung human pollinators of Saving our Species
Not many people can say they’ve spent a day doing an insect’s work, but that’s exactly what Threatened Species Officers from the Saving our Species
Featured Events
Global Waggle Dance
Join the GLOBAL Online Waggle Dance Challenge.
Upload your dance video to be featured in our Waggle Dance compilation video.
Wild Pollinator Count
The Wild Pollinator Count gives you an opportunity to contribute to wild pollinator insect conservation in Australia.
We invite you to count wild pollinators in your local environment and help us build a database on wild pollinator activity.
Pollinator Picnic
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.
New song to celebrate Australia’s unique pollinators
Put on your dancing shoes and turn up the volume – Australian Pollinator Week has a brand new song for 2021!
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.
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Australian Pollinator Week 2021
COVID-19 and Australian Pollinator Week
Due to the social distancing requirements in place due to COVID19, all Australian Pollinator Week event listings must be compliant with the current local restrictions and health recommendations.
We are encouraging Australian Pollinator Week Events to be online or virtual events wherever required.
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.
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.
We know how to save this bee – but we need your support to do it!
All donations to the ‘Rita Fund’ specifically direct your donation towards Australian native bee research.
Meet Rita, our native reed bee mascot.
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.
Events.
News from Australian Pollinator Week.
Celebrate our diverse pollinators with an extended week of action
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
New look for Australian Pollinator Week Unveiled
The Australian Pollinator Week online platform went live today, following a three-month program rebrand. With the goal of growing pollinator awareness and outreach activities across
