Past Events

Visit the Bee City USA - Asheville booth to learn more about the amazing pollinators that make our food possible. We’ll have a Scavenger Hunt for kids (and kids at heart) to see how many pollinator-dependent foods they can spot at the market.

Dr. Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist, professor, and author, specializing in buzz pollination and other native bee behaviors including nesting biology and mate selection. Join us for an inspiring keynote about the vital role pollinators play in our world.

Athena Rayne Anderson, Ph.D., M.Ed., has designed this presentation for adults of the general public. Learn about pollination and meet our most common pollinators in WNC. The session wraps up with the fascinating concept of “pollination syndromes” and how you can use them for conservation.

Come enjoy an evening learning about and finding native moths. The evening event will be led by conservation biologist Thomas Reed.

Bee sweet to our pollinators! Create a smorgasbord of beautiful blooming plants and butterfly host plants that provide much-needed habitat for pollinators, butterflies, and hummingbirds. With an emphasis on native plants, these lively gardens are full of color, support wildlife, and bring you delight throughout the season.

Follow the monarchs’ perilous journey and join hundreds of millions of real butterflies in the remote mountain peaks of Mexico, with breathtaking cinematography from an award winning team including Oscar® winner Peter Parks. Plus, an 8 minute documentary "Honey for the Maya" by Dr. Stephen Buchmann.

Those darn butterflies, bees and beetles move so fast – it can be tough to identify them! Explore the Botanical Gardens with experienced instructors to learn safe catch & release techniques and handy identification tools.

Those darn butterflies, bees and beetles move so fast – it can be tough to identify them! Explore the Botanical Gardens with experienced instructors to learn safe catch & release techniques and handy identification tools.

Environmental documentary featuring Dr. Doug Tallamy and focused on educating about how and why native plants are critical to the survival and vitality of local ecosystems with a goal to inspire people to plant native plants, providing a call to action to change our garden choices to include native plants.

Join Buncombe County's Environmental Educators for a workshop to learn about what we all can do to support healthy habitats for our pollinators. They will also teach us more about our native bees and butterflies.

A story of surprise and revelation. A wildlife filmmaker spends his time during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown filming the bees in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse species and personalities that exist in this insect family.

Enjoy a day of celebration, education, and community-building at Asheville’s 3rd Annual Honey Festival with the Center for Honeybee Research and Shanti Elixirs. Live music, food trucks, honey samples, and vendors showcasing the unique flavors of honey and other artisanal goods.

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world’s food supply depends on these incredible–and increasingly threatened–creatures.

Female mosquitos are human bloodsuckers and vectors for diseases! But insecticides and equipment that kill adult mosquitoes also kill beneficial insects. Learn ways to keep mosquito populations in check without harming pollinators.