To Celebrate National Pollinator Week, Our Park Ecologist Collaborated With Local Girl Scouts To Promote Bees!
Happy National Pollinator Week (June 22-28)! This is a special time where our park goes above and beyond to celebrate pollinators; the admirable organisms (bees, butterflies, bats etc.) that while foraging, transfer pollen from one flower to the next! This behavior allows plants to generate seeds, fruits and new flowers for the future. To commemorate this holiday, our staff typically hosts community educational programs and conservation projects. This year was no different except that we took the pollinator party to Zoom! First we kicked it off with Girl Scout Troop 3632! Troop mom Melissa and I (Bethpage State Park's ecologist) had been discussing the best way for her scouts to complete an environmental project that would give back to our park. After some consideration we agreed that scout-provided bee homes would be the perfect addition to our Picnic Pollinator Garden. As a thank you, I virtually taught a lesson about the two types of bees that would use their new gift: sp