Bee Palooza returns on Sunday, August 24, 2025!

WHERE: MSU Horticulture Gardens, 1066 Bogue Street in East Lansing, Michigan

WHEN: Sunday, August 24, 2025 from 1-4 PM

WHAT: This FREE event celebrates Michigan's pollinators and plants while promoting pollinator conservation. Have fun learning about the bees in your neighborhood with this year's theme: Bee Our Neighbor! Pollinator-made ice cream, bee petting zoo, native plant seeds, raffle with prizes for all ages and more!

Bee Palooza Station Map for 2025: 

Station 1: What's the buzz?
Station 2: Plants for Pollinators
Station 3: Flora Friends
Station 4: Bee Mindful
Station 5: Science of Pollination
Station 6: Larvae Lounge

PHOTOS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS: 

What is MSU Bee Palooza?

Bee Palooza is a celebration of Michigan pollinators and the promotion of pollinator stewardship. In celebration of National Pollinator Week, members of the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University host a Bee Palooza. This event includes interactive activities for all ages designed to increase awareness about pollinators and provide attendees with tips on what they can do to help. Visitors from across the region are invited to enjoy stations set up around the garden displaying examples of Michigan native bees including bumble bees, as well as the non-native, but agriculturally important honey bee. Pollinator habitat, plants and gardening practices to support pollinators, and examples of bee hotels are also on exhibit. This event was held annually from 2012-2019 with a virtual version in 2020, a hiatus between 2021-2022, and a reboot of the in-person event in August of 2023.

Key definitions:

Pollinators are animals that move pollen between flowers, resulting in seeds, nuts, and fruits. Most bees, some other insects, some birds, and some bats are pollinators.

Pollinator stewardship is when humans play an active part in protecting and providing natural resources that pollinators need - including clean water and food (aka nectar and pollen).