EVENTS AT UT
UT Spring Bee Competition: Launches in early spring annually. The contest rules are that anyone in the UT College of Natural Sciences community (staff, students, faculty) be the first to submit a photo of a Travis County mason bee.
Rationale: One measure of our changing climate is the shifting dates of emergence of our earliest spring flowers and insects. As Texas warms, some of our local bees may start coming out earlier in the year, and the Biodiversity Center would like to encourage you to help keep watch for the first bee activity of the year.
In 2022, UT Landscape Services and BEEVO students added to UT campus pollinator habitat by installing a new pollinator garden in the Painter Hall courtyard.
National Calender of Events Observed by Bee Campus USA
Annual Events Related to Pollinators
| Earth Day, April 22 |
https://earthday.org |
| Arbor Day, last Friday in April |
https://arborday.org/celebrate |
| National Wildflower Week, first week in May |
https://wildflower.org/wildflowerweek |
| Garden for Wildlife Month, May |
https://nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/National-Initiatives/Gardening-Month
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| World Bee Day - May 20 |
https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day/background |
| International Biodiversity Day, May 22 |
https://www.cbd.int/idb |
| Butterfly Education Awareness Day, first Saturday in June |
https://afbeducation.org/butterfly-conservation/butterfly-education-and-awareness-day/ |
| National Garden Week, first full week of June |
https://gardenclub.org/projects/national-garden-week.aspx |
| National Pollinator Week, third week of June |
https://pollinator.org/pollinator-week |
| National Moth Week, last full week of July |
https://nationalmothweek.org |
| National Honey Bee Day, third Saturday in August |
https://nationalhoneybeeday.com |
| National Honey Month - September |
https://www.honey.com/blog/celebrate-national-honey-month-with-these-10-tips |
| National Bat Week, last week of October |
https://batweek.org |
