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Pickerelweed Project: Education and Training
Meadowbrook Park
2808 S Race St
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 384-4062
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Join Illinois Extension and Urbana Park District to learn how establishing
the right “weed” for your pond or wetland can help support native bees,
including a local endangered bee, the Pickerelweed Longhorned Bee.
the right “weed” for your pond or wetland can help support native bees,
including a local endangered bee, the Pickerelweed Longhorned Bee.
Discussion topics by Illinois Extension Educator Karla Griesbaum
and Urbana Park District Environmental Public Program Coordinator
Sreelakshmi Suresh will include native and specialist bees, wetlands
and wetland plants, the endangered pickerelweed longhorn bee,
selecting the right location for pickerelweed, and planting pickerelweed
in a pond or wetland. This program will involve a 3/4 mile paved walk
through Meadowbrook Park to the wetland, for a total distance of 1.5 miles.
In the event of rain, we will have a shortened program that will take
place in the barn at Meadowbrook Park.
place in the barn at Meadowbrook Park.
Register today at go.illinois.edu/Pickerelweed
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