Please join us 9 AM at the Pollinatarium: 1030 Meadowbrook pavilion by the Herb garden; Noon back to the Pollinatarium for cool water, AC and to compare pictures/bee finds. Bring lunch and stay to visit if you like.
On Garden Walk Saturday June 15th
Thank you visiting the Pollinatarium during the Master Gardeners Garden Walk. We had more than 500 visitors! What a wonderful way to Kick off National Pollinator week.
Closed Saturday May 25th. Please join me and the bee girls and boys next Saturday June 1st.
Lesley
Native Plant Festival at Parkland
Pollinatarium CLOSED May 4th. Come and join me at the Native Plant Festival at Parkland Saturday, May 4th from 9:00am to 3:00 pm. Hope to see you there. Lesley
Story Time Saturday 2PM
Come and join me for Insect Tales or is it tails?
Monarch & Pollinator Fair 1-4pm at McKinley Foundation ; Pollinatarium closed March 2nd
Come visit with me at the fair today. More than a dozen people with information, crafts, games and face painting will be at the McKinley Foundation at 410 E. Daniel St, Champaign.
Out of town this Saturday
Hello I will be out of town Saturday February 17th. Please come and visit next Saturday February 24th before the Insect Fear Film Festival!
Happy New Year! Come and Visit!
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 visits are currently by appointment only
We’re sorry. Visits to the Pollinatarium are currently by appointment only.
Pollinatarium building will Open August 2nd, 2021
We are scheduling indoor visits for August and September. Visits will be by appointment. Please send an email to lesleyd@illinois.edu
Pollinatarium Bee-zaar!
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 […]
Beekeeping Kickoff for 2018
We will be hosting the first meeting of the CEIBA (Central Eastern Illinois Beekeepers Assoc.) on January 27th, 2018. * * * * * * Pot Luck Noon to 1 PM. Meeting starts at 1 PM. Tim Wilbanks will be speaking and taking orders for packages of honey bees. * * * * * *
Pollinatarium continues to evolve
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 […]
Thousands get up close and personal with pollinators
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 […]
National Pollinator Week 2014
In 2007, National Pollinator Week was officially declared by the U.S. Senate in order to recognize the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture and to support efforts to increase awareness about pollinators. Here’s how Urbana-Champaign celebrated with the rest of the nation in 2014… Week Long Events June 16-June 22 Pollinator Food Guides […]