A week in celebration of pollinators?

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In the United States, they are celebrating Pollinator Week (19-25th June). In Britain, they have a Pollinator Awareness Week which runs in July. Isn’t it time we in Ireland did something similar? After all pollinators are in decline worldwide and we can all do our bit to help pollinators in our local areas.

So this week I hope to post a few extra pollinator posts to start an “Irish Pollinator Week” of sorts. I will post the posts here and on a blog I share with a friend, Wild Pollinator Gardens.

And I ask each of you, where ever you are in the world, to think about posting at least one pollinator post or photo over this next week.

Pollinator week

19 thoughts on “A week in celebration of pollinators?”

  3. cherielanglois

    I’ll do that tomorrow–thanks so much for the reminder! I’ve been so happy about the large number of bumblebees buzzing around our farm this year so far šŸ™‚

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  4. Robbie

    I live in the USA and I did not know it was Pollinator week. Thank you for educating me! I have been so busy trying to keep my garden going in this roller coaster weather we are having in hte USA-midwest. We had summer in spring????crazy and a battle with growing things this year, but now things seem to be settling down.

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    1. Murtagh's Meadow Post author

      It seems to be the way of things these days Robbie. We had warm May, then start of June was cold and wet and now we’re back to warm – with East coast having very warm. We just got to keep trying no matter what the weather throws at us!!

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  7. dust4y

    My younger daughter put a bumblebee out onto her window ledge as it seemed drowsy inside. It became more active so I assume that it didn’t need any honey water?

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    1. Murtagh's Meadow Post author

      Sometimes just popping them on a flower where they can get some food helps. But sometimes they just need a bit of heat to get going.

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  9. aj vosse

    Why don’t we get a pollinator weekend going for each of the summer months? That way we can get the good folk of the Biodiversity Ireland and other groups to focus on more, short, sharp session all around the country! We could get many more interested lay-folk like myself involved! šŸ˜‰ šŸ¦‹

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