The Bee Squad: Boosting local biodiversity

The Bee squad offers fantastic projects, adventures and information on helping threatened species in your suburb, city and town. Woven throughout the book are inspiring stories of Aussie kids making a huge difference to their local environment – you don’t need to live near a national park or protected area to get involved.

Learn how to create a garden haven, be a nature sleuth or citizen scientist, how to make homes for pollinators, take brilliant photos of birds and insects, be an advocate and writing champion, cool your neighbourhood and more. You can do your bit from your balcony, backyard, local park or school. And lots of ‘bits’ make a big difference.

Join author Judy Friedlander for an engaging, interactive author talk where she’ll share and explore these topics with you. Some of the activities will include:

• designing a special habitat haven
• writing an advocacy letter about your environmental cause
• finding the five Blue-banded bees
• playing the matching game: match the pollinator to the plant, colour and food they help produce.

Suitable for ages 8-12 years.

Visitor information

Children under the age of 11 should be supervised by someone over 18 at all times in the Library.

We follow NSW Health guidelines for the health and safety of our community and staff. Please read our Behaviour in the Library and Unaccompained children guidelines before your visit.

This event may be filmed or photographed. Images may be used on Council websites, publications, social media channels and circulated to the press and other media organisations for publication, transmission or broadcast. If you do not wish your image to be published, please notify staff before the event.