The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia

BEE AWARE! - Build Your Own Bee Box Workshop
(Adults and children ages 11 and up)
Long Branch Nature Center
Sunday, June 24, 1:00-2:30pm

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Join us as we partner with Long Branch Nature Center in starting off
National Pollinator Week with this orchard mason bee workshop! Learn how and
why to attract our native solitary bees, their natural history, and even
build a bee box for you to take home! Audubon will provide materials but
would appreciate any donations.

Reservations required by calling Audubon at 703-256-6895.

GARDENING FOR POLLINATORS
Long Branch Nature Center
Sunday, June 24, 3:30-4:30pm

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Celebrate the start of National Pollinator Week by learning how to make your
garden more attractive to pollinators! Butterflies, hummingbirds, mason
bees, moths and others will all be discussed with excellent handouts
available to encourage your yard to be pollinator friendly! Audubon at Home
of Northern Virginia will even supply some Pollinator Seed Packets to get
you started!

Reservation required by calling Long Branch Nature Center at 703-228-6535.

NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK
JUNE 24-30, 2007

Protecting pollinators has recently become a matter of national interest.

According to the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign’s website, www.nappc.org, “The U.S. Senate passed a Resolution to protect pollinators and designates June 24-30, 2007 National Pollinator Week, thus recognizing the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture in the United States and the value of partnership efforts to increase awareness about pollinators and support for protecting pollinators.”

Be sure to check out the first ever pollinator stamp, www.pollinator.org/Resources/USPSsr06_048.pdf

Conserving and attracting native pollinators is not only of national importance, it’s also one of the best ways to bring added color and interest to your landscape. Bringing hummingbirds, bumble bees, day moths, hover flies and flower beetles into your garden keeps your plants healthy and your landscape a buzz with life-filled activity. It’s also essential to protecting our native pollinators and the billions of dollars of agricultural crops these creatures keep in production every year.

To highlight the importance of these often over-looked animals and to give out tips on how to invite them onto your property, Audubon At Home in Northern Virginia will be celebrating the newly designated week of June 24 as national pollinator week. This time has been designated by our federal government as a time to increase awareness and knowledge of our nation’s vital pollinators. Audubon At Home will participate in this celebration with events that focus on pollinator conservation right here in Northern Virginia.

Please keep an eye on our website and newsletter for details.

Fairfax Audubon Society Undertakes Special Regional Program
Annandale, Virginia June 8, 2004

The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia (ASNV) is a lead chapter nationwide in the Audubon at Home program, a partnership under federal grant, of Audubon and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.

According to the Director of the program, Jim Waggener, the objectives for Audubon at Home in Northern Virginia are to draw attention to the nature of this region, encourage preservation and enhancement of quality natural areas, and promote healthier habitats for homes and communities. Working with a number of organizations and agencies, ASNV is identifying sites that exemplify quality wildlife habitat or demonstrate how quality habitat can be restored. The project will result in a resource book and website as well as tours of sites where the public may see at first hand the principles of Audubon at Home in action.

Audubon at Home in Northern Virginia is seen as an exceptional opportunity to highlight this region's natural areas, their value, their threats, and some concrete remedies for their betterment.

To learn more about Audubon at Home in Northern Virginia, call 703-256-6895 or e-mail info@audubonva.org

For more on Audubon at Home, nationally, visit www.audubonathome.org