Join us in celebrating Pollinator Week on Saturday, June 24! From 10:00 am – 2:00 pm enjoy hands-on activities and talks to learn more about pollinators and their conservation. You’ll find these activities at the following stations around the Zoo:

Generate Some Buzz with TEC on the barn path at Grassmere Historic Farm

Our partners from Tennessee Environmental Council will be joining us with activities for guests of all ages.

• Wire bee craft
• Build a bee house
• Microscope exploration
• Host-plant and pollinator puzzles

Hummingbirds at the Croft House back porch

Join Nashville Zoo’s Hummingbird team to learn how to attract these beautiful bird pollinators to your garden.

• Native plants to add to your garden 
• How to safely utilize hummingbird feeders

Bees at the apiary and in the observation hive room in the barn 

Join our team of Nashville Zoo Beekeepers to learn more about our hives, how much we depend on pollinators to put food on our table, and what you can do to support native bees.

• Beekeeper chats at our Apiary
• Visit our observation hive in the barn at Grassmere Historic Farm

Monarchs, Milkweed, and Migration at the Children’s Garden

Join Nashville Zoo’s Monarch team to learn about monarch butterflies, their yearly migration, and how you can support their survival and help conservation scientists study them!

• Explore the monarch lifecycle
• Learn about milkweed and why monarchs depend on it
• Find out more about monarch migration and how you can help scientists track it
• Learn all about AZA’s SAFE Monarch program and how organizations around the country are working together to save this species
• Discover what you can do to support monarchs at home

Native Plants outside the garden at Grassmere Historic Farm

Visit our pollinator gardens to learn about the importance of native plants and how some pollinators depend on certain host plants to survive.

 

• Which native plants to add to your garden
• Which herbs you may already have planted that support pollinators
• What is a host plant anyway?

Dawn of the Flowering Plant at Festival Field

Learn about the evolution of pollinators and flowering plants during the age of dinosaurs!