Name: The Humble Bumblebee: Pollinator Powerhouse
Start: 2025-03-01T10:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T11:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am CST

Room 44

The bumblebee is arguably the most important native insect pollinator in the Chicago region. Co-evolving with our native flowering plants, bumblebees are exquisitely adapted both physically and behaviorally for efficient pollen and nectar collection. The annual cycle of the bumblebee colony puts the bumblebee queen in a race against time to lay enough eggs—and the workers to raise enough young—for their genes to be passed along for one more year. This session provides an overview of the bumblebee lifecycle, and the discusses the many adaptations of both bumblebees and plants that allow the fittest to succeed.

Presenters

Robert Sullivan

Environmental Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory - retired

Bob Sullivan is a retired environmental scientist (Argonne National Laboratory), horticulturist, landscape architect, and Illinois Master Naturalist. He currently manages a rooftop native pollinator garden at the Center on Halsted in Chicago, is on the board on the Wild Ones West... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am CST
Room 44

Plants & Pollinators, Intro

Session Session Block A: 10:15 - 11 AM

Wild Things 2025

Robert Sullivan

Attendees (210)

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