Pollinators on a sunflower by Nancy Lee Adamson
Pollinators are under threat, but there’s plenty we can do to help right in our own backyards.
Enter the 2025 Habitat Raffle
Get your ticket today for a chance to win a native pollinator habitat and support the conservation work of Bee City Asheville. The winner’s habitat will be designed and installed by conservationist Bryan Tompkins in October and full of butterflies and native bees next spring!
Visit the Asheville Butterfly Trail
This county-wide program will feature 15 gorgeous local butterflies and the plants they need as caterpillars and adults. Human-sized wings make fun photo ops and signs share the larger story of what pollinators do and how. Learn more about our first stations.
Become a Certified Pollinator Advocate
We are collaborating with the Asheville Botanical Garden to offer a series of 12 monthly classes covering pollination ecology topics and leading to certification as a Pollinator Advocate. Classes will be held the second Monday of each month, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the ABG.
Asheville Butterfly Trail
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Asheville Butterfly Trail
After a year of planning, we are pleased to welcome visitors to the first four butterfly stations: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail at the Asheville Visitor Center, Gulf Fritillary at Reems Creek Nursery, Common Buckeye at UNCA’s greenway, and Summer Azure at the Blue Ridge Audubon Sanctuary at Beaver Lake. Interpretive signs and our website provide some natural history and more: the butterfly’s life cycle, male/female forms, fun facts, caterpillar superpowers, larval host plants, and how you can help.
The Asheville Butterfly Trail is made possible by the help of generous photographers, researchers and donors.