Bees, Butterflies and Botany In-Person
Explore flower tracking and phenology through fun, hands-on citizen science activities in nature!
- Date:
- Saturday, September 6, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:15pm
- Location:
- Merritt Meeting Room
- Library:
- Merritt Library
- Audience:
- Families
This talk is in partnership with the Nicola Naturalists Society.
Lori Weidenhammer, aka Madame Beespeaker is a naturalist, author and educator based in Rock Creek, BC. She is recently released The Revised Edition of Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide for Saving the Bees published by Douglas and McIntyre.
Lori is a founding member of the Native Bee Society of BC and the co-creator (with Tyler Kelly) and co-curator (with Lincoln Best) of the NBSBC Bee Tracker project on iNaturalist where she has helped ID over 24, 000 bees with the help of many other taxonomists and naturalists and helped to connect bee species to the flowers they visit in their bioregion. She works to be positive force giving people of all ages new ways to connect to the beauty and wonder of BC’s native bees.
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