Host a Pollinator Week Event
Pollinator Week is a 7-day celebration across North America. Here in Nebraska, we make a special effort to promote and share our love and excitement for pollinators. This year’s national theme “Life on a Leaf: Celebrating Caterpillars and Host Plants" highlights the vital host plants that support Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) larvae. The overall goal of this year’s theme is to showcase the impact we can make by planting native plants that help pollinators thrive throughout all stages of their life cycle.
Each year, Nebraska Game and Parks hosts "Nebraska Pollinator Week", recruiting interested organizations across the state to register and host one or more pollinator themed events in June during (or right before) this fun week. In return, we promote National Pollinator Week across the state, help promote your events, and send you special pollinator week materials to share with the public.
Pollinator Week events can be big or small. Anything from hosting a pollinator themed story time at a local library, offering a bee related craft at your center, to planning a full-blown pollinator festival--- all efforts are appreciated! In addition, we will be hosting the Nebraska Pollinator Patrol, a virtual pollinator bioblitz in iNaturalist to record observations across the state. Tying your event to this community science opportunity is easy (but not required)! Please reach out if you have questions about what this could look like.
To Participate:
Submit Your Event(s)!
In an effort to support national Pollinator Week efforts, we are asking that you submit your event to the "Pollinator Week Activity Map" found at link below.
Request Pollinator Week Materials
Please complete the form at the link below by June 5, 2026 to receive free Nebraska pollinator materials to distribute at your event!
Materials include a combination of informational literature, stickers, pollinator seed packets, and more!
Information collected by this form will also be used to help promote your event through the NGPC Webpage and social media channels
For questions:
Brianna Nugent
Community Science Program Manager
brianna.nugent@nebraska.gov
