LONA days at KBC: Pollinate Northern Sweden

Information about an environmental restoration project on pollinating insects and their plants in West Bothnia, Sweden.

Background:

• Pollinating insects are important to all life on Earth.
• About 80 % of all plants depend on pollinating insects.
• International and national studies indicate that insects are threatened in different ways, but how is it in Northern Sweden?

Program

Available during the whole event:

• Information posters
• Photo exhibition
• Book exhibition
• Microscopy of insects and plants
• Creative activities for children, including a competition with price

With limited schedule:

• Lectures (depends on the amount of participants)
• Electron microscopy at Umeå Core Facility of Electron
  Microscopy, Friday 30th August, 14-16, note: limited
  places, please register to natuschka.lee@umu.se
• If the weather permits insect-plant safari in the Umeå
  region – including a visit to honeybee hives at the Umeå
  University campus.

For all ages and education levels. Most of the events will be in Swedish, but there will be English speaking guides.