Bats vs. Mosquitos!
Bats eat mosquitos and other insects (watch this super-cool clip of a bat catching a moth). One way to encourage bats in your neighborhood is to give them a home!
And we have just the house for them! Made of Oregon pine by local woodworker, Tim Short, each house can hold 100 bats!
The best news is that Tim is donating $5 toPollinator Project Rogue Valley
from the sale of each house we sell ! Yay!
$30 payable to Tim Short - cash or check only, please.
See picture and flyer below!
(Our office hours can vary, so best to schedule an appointment.)
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Are You on the Mosquito No-Spray List Yet?
Jackson County Vector Control District has begun their annual treatments for mosquitos. The adulticide used most often is deltamithrin, an insecticide toxic to bees and a hormone-disrupter for humans. JCVCD also uses larvicides, which is the better choice, usually Natular. Information about these products can be found here.
Please encourage your friends and neighbors to get on the no-spray list!
See map example image below.
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Protecting Pollinators Class
Saturday, June 15, 10am - noon
Lavender Fields Forever
Who are our pollinators, and why are they important?
What can we do to reverse their population declines?
Join us for a class by Kristina Lefever, President of Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, as she answers these questions in the hopes that we’ll “bee inspired” to become pollinator champions. Learn how to look at your garden or yard
with this question in mind: Would a bee like to live here?
See Lavender Fields Forever's full list of summer classes!
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Third Annual Bee City USA Ashland
Pollinator Garden Tour
Saturday and Sunday, June 29 & 30, 9am-noon
We love this event!
The one and only opportunity to take a self-guided tour of pollinator gardens throughout Ashland. This year there are 15 gardens on the tour, and each day features different participating homeowner's gardens.
Pick up your tour booklet with a map at the
North Mountain Park Nature Center after June 1st.
Cost: $10 (or $15 after June 28)
See flyer below.
Register online or call the NMP Nature Center at 541-488-6606
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Bees in the Valley!
Watch this wonderful video, created by Zach Beltz for his capstone project at SOU, all about the who and the what that is happening at SOU and in the Valley
to help bring attention to the world of pollinators.
We are so proud to have been included!
Thank you, Seth Campbell and Jarrett Taylor for highlighting our Rogue Buzzway project in this video, and for all the work you did this year!
Well done, Zach!
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Kristina Lefever on the Radio!
Thank you, Jon Stewart of Aromaculture.com, for the opportunity to have conversation with you on your podcast about our favorite subjects:
pollinators, pollinator gardens, pesticides, our Rogue Buzzway project,
Bee City USA, and what people can do to save the pollinators!
Aromaculture.com is an online resource featuring educational articles, recipes and more on the topics of herbalism and aromatherapy, and we are honored to have been able to share our message with this audience.
Enjoy!
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Pollinators' Pick:
JPR Interview with Center for Food Safety
Have 18 minutes while doing the dishes?
Why not have a listen to a great discussion on the differences between wild bees
and honeybees on this JPR interview with the Center for Food Safety.
CFS just introduced a "Know Your Pollinators: Wild Bee ID" app for
smartphones to make bee identification easy!
This discussion covers pollinator gardens, bee habitat, wild bee gardens, and how to use the new app to welcome wild bees in your garden.
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Seeking Volunteers!
Pollinator Project Rogue Valley is a fun place to volunteer!
Come help us get good things going with pollinators,
plants, gardens, (no) pesticides, and more!
Volunteer to write articles for this newsletter or our blog, table at events,
send letters to the editor about important issues, help with social media, and more.
We invite fun-loving, creative people to join our Events Committee
and to table at community events!
Send us an email to let us know how you would like to bee involved!
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Questions or Comments? Please contact us at
pollinator@pollinatorprojectroguevalley.org
Keep up to date with all things Pollinator on our Facebook page:
Pollinator Project Rogue Valley
Office Hours: noon - 5 pm, Tuesday - Friday
and by appointment
312 N. Main St., Suite B, Phoenix
Mail to: PO Box 242, Phoenix, OR 97535
458-214-0508
Visit our website.
Click here for archived editions of The Pollinator Times.
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