Pollinator Week

Pollinator Week: Pollinators, Plants, People, Planet

Pollinator Partnership is proud to announce that June 22-28, 2020 has been designated National Pollinator Week!

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National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them.

Thirteen years ago the U.S. Senate, initiated by Pollinator Partnership under Laurie Davies Adams, unanimously approved and designated a week in June as “National Pollinator Week”, marking a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. That same year, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johans issued a proclamation that Dr. Larry Stritch, US FS Chief Botanist for Grasslands, orchestrated. Pollinator Week has now grown into an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles.

Pollinator Week was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership.

Due to the current situation with covid-19, Pollinator Week 2020 will not be a typical Pollinator Week. We urge everyone to hold a socially distant, appropriate event. In an effort to lighten the load on state governments during this time, we are not pursuing formal state proclamations this year, but will continue to post proclamations that we do receive. Moreover, we encourage everyone to go outside and spend some time with the bees and butterflies that inspire hope in many.

Find Activities and Lightings

It's not too early to start thinking about your socially distant activity. Pollinators positively affect all our lives, supporting wildlife, healthy watershed and more - let's SAVE and CELEBRATE them! Activities can be more traditional events open to the public (plantings, walks, webinars) or private events in your backyard*. Join the celebration and connect virtually by adding your pollinator activity to the map below!

My Pollinators - My Story Submissions are now on the map!

*Private activities will not be made available for download in the events list.

Add your activity and lighting to the map
View Activities and Lightings in List Format

Pollinator Week Lightings

Help us celebrate Pollinator Week by requesting local establishments and buildings to light up yellow and orange in support of pollinators! Together, let's make this the brightest Pollinator Week ever! Click on the button below to download our Pollinator Week Lighting request text.

Download Lighting Request Text

CN Tower, Toronto

Empire State Building, New York City

San Francisco City Hall lighting for Pollinator Week 2019, photo by SF Environment

Niagara Falls

Take Action

WHY SHOULD YOU CONTACT YOUR GOVERNOR?

Many states require in-state requests for events such as Pollinator Week to be officially proclaimed. Thanks to wonderful citizens like you, all 50 states declared Pollinator Week in 2019!

Please take a moment to sign and mail the letter below to your governor. Your effort is making Pollinator Week 2020 a great success!

View the Proclamations

HOW SHOULD YOU CONTACT YOUR GOVERNOR?

1. WRITE

Use our Sample Letter as a base
Be sure to include the Proclamation Text with your letter

Canada

Check out our English and French sample proclamations!

2. CALL

Find your Governor's address on the Governor Contact List

SUGGESTED SCRIPT FOR CALLING GOVERNOR'S OFFICE

Hello my name is NAME. Can I speak to the person that handles proclamations?
I am calling to follow up on a letter sent by the Pollinator Partnership requesting the governor proclaim STATE Pollinator Week, June 22-28, 2020. The Pollinator Partnership would love to demonstrate STATE'S support for pollinators to its citizens. Please let me know what I can do to move this proclamation forward.
Thank you for taking the time to speak with me. Have a great day.