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Category Archives: Visitors
Happy New Year! Come and Visit!
January 9, 2024 – 2:33 pm
We will be open Saturdays 1:30 to 4:30 unless posted otherwise.For appointments during the week please email me at lesleyd@illinois.edu
Pollinatarium Bee-zaar!
May 25, 2018 – 4:16 pm
Thank you for supporting the Pollinatarium Bee-zaar! We had a great turnout for our first ever Pollinatarium Bee-zaar! Thank you to everyone who came to support the Pollinatarium, and thank you to the Entomology Graduate Students for hosting the event and donating their time and energy to help set up, run, and take down the read more
Pollinatarium continues to evolve
December 19, 2016 – 3:02 pm
As one visitor remarked, the Pollinatarium has continued to evolve. For the first time, we were on the 2015 CU Garden Walk for sustainable gardening. We made cedar planting boxes for the south side of the building, where we can’t dig because of the buried power lines. We also put a hexagonal flowerbed box under read more
Thousands get up close and personal with pollinators
December 20, 2014 – 11:05 am
The UI Pollinatarium, the discovery/science center dedicated to raising pollinator awareness, is the ultimate in repurposing; the building at the south end of the UI Arboretum was originally constructed as a pesticide storage shed, spent over a decade as Gene Robinson’s Bee Research Facility, and in 2009 was converted into a facility for science outreach read more
Over 2700 visitors in 2012!
December 18, 2012 – 10:36 am
In 2012, over 2700 people came to visit. In their numbers were students in every second grade class in Champaign, home schoolers, Urbana school district fourth graders, Parkland College classes, visiting beekeepers, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, passers-by, Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, an agricultural tour group from Montana, and a few bee biology celebrities. We’re now read more
Celebrity bee biologist visitors
December 17, 2009 – 11:57 am
Celebrity bee biologist visitors have included Nathan Schiff (USDA Forest Service), Walter “Steve” Sheppard (Washington State University), Hachiro Shimanuki (USDA retired), and Peter Kevan (University of Guelph).
Champaign classes visit
December 15, 2009 – 11:42 am
We’re off to a great start! Every second grade class in the Champaign school district visited the Pollinatarium during the Fall 2009 semester.
