Wild Bee Squad Extension Fund

Your gifts to the Wild Bee Squad Extension Fund support the efforts of Dr. Elaine Evans, Extension Educator at the University of Minnesota, and her team, helping connect people and pollinators. Your dollars are put to work:

  • Researching how conservation actions impact pollinators

  • Developing and sharing best management practices to improve pollinator conservation

  • Training community members to educate others about how to help pollinators

  • Creating and delivering workshops on bee identification, pollinator education, and pollinator conservation

  • Raising awareness of the endangered rusty patched bumble bee

  • Inspiring the public to help collect data on bumble bees


 

Three scientists near a large patch of flowers photographing bumble bees and collecting data.

 

Rusty patched bumble bee on a bee balm flower