Pollinator Workshop at 2016 FNGLA Landscape Show

Flower fly on frog fruit (Phyla nodiflora). Photo by Bob Peterson @BobinSwamp

Speakers at 2016 Pollinator Workshop sponsored by Florida Native Plant Partners

POLLINATOR WORKSHOP
1:00-4:00pm Thursday, Sept. 15
at the Landscape Show, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando
REGISTER by SEPT 2 to get the discount price of $75.

FANN is pleased to partner with Florida Wildflower Foundation and the Florida Wildflower Seed Co-op in sponsoring a pollinator workshop for landscape industry professionals at the FNGLA Landscape Show in Orlando, Thursday, September 15, from 1:00-4:00pm. The workshop will focus on how to create healthy pollinator habitat in the landscape, understand the various threats facing pollinators, and how to maintain healthy pollinator-friendly landscapes. Speakers include Dr. Jaret Daniels, University of Florida McGuide Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History; Zak Gezon, Conservation Program Manager, Walt Disney Company and Mark Russell, Director of Horticulture at Seaworld Parks Orlando.

Jaret Daniels is leading a 10-year Monarch conservation program as part of Walt Disney World’s Reverse the Decline conservation initiative, in which UF is the only university partner. The Florida Milkweed Project being funded by UF and Florida Wildflower Foundation in partnership with FANN is one of many projects supported in this effort. We may not think of the Monarch Butterfly primarily as a pollinator, but milkweed plants are in fact great pollinator attractors, as well as being hosts for the Monarch butterfly.

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