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Venue: Arboretum

Address: Lincoln Avenue & Florida Avenue , Urbana

Venue Details: From Lincoln Avenue, turn east onto a gravel road across from the University Dairy Barns and follow it about a third of a mile. From Windsor Road, turn north onto the first gravel road east of Lincoln and follow it about a quarter-mile.

Cost: Free

posted 10:36 am May 19
modified 10:36 am May 19

The University of Illinois Pollinatarium is the first free-standing science center in the nation devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators. Exhibits on beekeeping equipment, demonstration hive with live bees, interactive games, birdwing butterflies.
Displays on flowers, pollen, bumble bee biology, monarch butterflies, history of beekeeping, pollinators in peril, insect societies, honey bee biology, language of pollination, bird pollination, mammal pollination, pollinators in pop culture.

For more information: www.life.uiuc.edu/pollinatarium/.