724: Phyllis Stiles on the Bee City USA Program

Appreciating the Variety of Pollinators That Visit Our Gardens

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Phyllis Stiles is someone who loves to create a buzz about pollinators. She became fascinated with bees when she started keeping her own, and that led to an appreciation of and sense of responsibility for all pollinators. As she became aware of the problems they face, she decided to do something about it and created the Bee City USA program. The program is for cities, but as Phyllis explains, there are also many things that individuals can do to help our friends the pollinators.

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Phyllis Stiles is founder and director emerita of Bee City USA®, which began in Ashville, NC in 2012. The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign named her “Pollinator Advocate of the Year for the United States” in 2015, the same year the sister program, Bee Campus USA, launched. To date, more than 320 cities and campuses in 45 states have joined the Bee City and Bee Campus USA networks. Phyllis has made well over a hundred presentations and published countless newspaper and magazine articles about pollinator conservation across the nation. She spent her career at universities and non-profit organizations serving communities from West Africa to the Mississippi Delta, in fields ranging from natural resource and farmland protection to fundraising.

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Phyllis Stiles on the Bee City USA Program.

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