Butterflies and Bees! Attracting Native Pollinators to Your Garden, Guided Walk

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Posted 2024-10-27 by Elaine ⇒ follow

Sat 09 Nov 2024

It's Australian Pollinator Week!

It's Australian Pollinator Week - Image: Sunshine Coast Council FB

The Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden features a stunning mix of natural bushland koala habitat, display gardens and recreation areas. It is also an inspiring backdrop for a range of events: from performance and visual art to educational and wellbeing experiences.

It’s Australian Pollinator Week! The perfect season and reason to get out and about to celebrate the importance of native insect pollinators and the essential ecosystem services they provide, in the environment.

Bee delights! Image: HiveHaven FB

Join in for the laid-back Butterflies and Bees! Attracting Native Pollinators to your Garden, Guided Walk at the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden and discover for yourself what beautiful native plants naturally attract more butterflies and bees and help to drive biodiversity in your own backyard.

This fascinating guided walk is ideal for adults and requires a reasonable level of fitness. Paths are both sealed and unsealed and may vary from relatively flat to moderate gradients. Please come dressed for a walk in the outdoors - sun-smart and enclosed shoes.

Bee attracting Ivory Curl flower - Image: HiveHaven via Sunshine Coast Council FB

Bookings are essential. Walkers to please meet at the entrance to the Arts & Ecology Centre at the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden.

Date and times: Saturday 9 November, 10.00am to 11.30am
Location: Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, Palm Creek Road, Tanawha
Please meet at the Arts & Ecology Centre
Tickets are ONLY $5 and may be purchased online here.

This remarkable photo contains not one but three Richmond Birdwing butterflies and one of the males is blue in colour! Usually, males are bright green (see butterfly lower right). The larger female birdwing is on the left.

Image: Landers Shoot LfW member, Stephanie Fielder, on her LfW property, via Sunshine Coast Council FB

For another fun FREE guided walk at the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, on Saturday 2 November, please follow this highlighted link to Welcome to the Garden Guided Walk.

Three BIG Butterfly Counts on the Sunshine Coast are taking place at different locations:

Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden ;

Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary ; and

Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve

To pre-purchase your low-cost tickets to any of the above three BIG Butterfly Count events, please follow the respective individual highlighted links.