Children's Garden Entrance
GET TO KNOW THE GARDEN’S POLLINATORS Our new exhibit Meet your Polleneighbors is now open in the Children’s Garden. In this exhibit, guests will learn about ten important pollinators—native bees, migrating butterflies, native butterflies, ants, beetles, bats, wasps, flies, moths, and hummingbirds. Each of the featured pollinators have their own themed areas within the Garden where guests can take an educational deep dive by reading all the signage or simply enjoy the space and watch the pollinators in action. The bee garden is abuzz with cavity-nesting bees in their high-rise apartments where many of the tubes in the six structures are already inhabited. Around them, our horticulture team planted plenty of blue and purple nectar-rich flowers to attract the astounding array of native bees we have here in the Garden. It’s quite magical to watch them navigate their nectar choices. Here they are spoiled for choice. Different species are active at different parts of the day, and each have their own flower preferences as things come into bloom. Take a quiet moment to watch, and you are likely to see many unique species. In fact, in a study done onsite in 2012, researchers found that Red Butte Garden supported and housed a uniquely rich bee fauna compared to other observed areas in the valley and surrounding area. They counted 132 different species representing 34 genera in just one season here. By comparison, that was more than was counted over a 4-year period on 150,000 acres of land near the Utah/Idaho border.
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