Elizabeth Elle: The Bees of Your Backyard

Date: 7:30pm-9:30pm, Jun 10, 2026

Elizabeth loves bringing together her background as an ecologist and her experience as a gardener to provide accessible, science-informed information to garden clubs and natural history societies.

Have you ever paused to consider how much we owe to pollinators? About one out of every three bites we eat, not to mention the reproduction of native and ornamental plants! The pollination workhorses are the almost 500 species of native bees in BC. There is also an incredible diversity of flower-visiting flies, not to mention the flashier flower visitors like butterflies and hummingbirds. This presentation is a fun introduction to the diversity and natural history of bees and other pollinators, full of photos of what you might see visiting flowers in your own backyard.