Lola Canola
BEE SCHOOL with Lola Canola brings you fun and informative in-school field trips for kids K-5. Patty loves teaching children about bees. She’s taught with A.B.C.
Students will 1) have a BEE-lightful time! 2) Learn a ton about bees. Lola Canola's Bee School can be custom fit to your class, whatever the age level. Bee School is particularly relevant for the following grades and science topics:
Grade 1 Topic B: Seasonal Changes; Topic E: Needs of Animals & Plants
Grade 2 Topic E: Small Crawling & Flying Animals
Grade 3 Topic E Animal Life Cycles
Grade 4 T
03/08/2023
It may not look like it outside, but believe it or not spring planting is just around the corner! 🌷 Remember to check out our free seed collection to help sprout some garden ideas.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3IZg2qI
12/19/2022
This graphic is amazing. Check it out if you want to see what plants bees most love to visit.
FAVOURITE PLANTS OF WILL BEES
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
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11/03/2022
There's still time to win bragging rights and some excellent cash prizes! Proud of your honey? Enter it into the Alberta Honey Show!
Alberta Honey Show | Farmfair International Nov 9-12, 2022 The best of Alberta honey and honey products will be on display. Over $1,000 in cash prizes to be won!
09/15/2022
Have you been to our Children’s Gallery? ‘Animal Architects’ is inspired by the design structures of insects, mammals and birds. Hunt for visual clues and puzzles, build your own architectural sculpture, read a story, and add to our collaborative weaving. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RzmkPM
Sponsored by maclabdevelopmentgroup and Maclab Properties Group, and presented as part of the Poole Centre of Design program.
Installation view of Animal Architects, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 2022
07/08/2022
This bee is new to me! It’s a nomad bee—a cleptoparasite that lays its eggs in the nests of other solitary bees!
Neat--you can take a virtual tour of the E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum at the University of Alberta. https://www.ualberta.ca/science/about-us/virtual-tours/strickland-museum.html
E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum Tour | Faculty of Science The Strickland Museum was started at the University of Alberta in 1922 by Col. Edgar Harold Strickland. The original collection contained research specimens that Strickland used to compile resources such as An annotated list of the Diptera (flies) of Alberta (1938) and an annotated list of the wasps...
11/22/2021
Pollinators in the City--here's a fantastic series of free webinars for anyone interested in pollinators and the urban landscape brought to you by Oregon State University Bee Lab. https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TwV9ffFjTee60l6M1refJw
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Pollinators in the City. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us daily from November 29th through December 3rd at 10AM EASTERN for this webinar series (60m) focused on the biology and human dynamics of pollinator conservation in urban settings. 11/29 Reed Johnson, Honey Bees in the City: Where Are They Feeding, and How Do We Know? 11/30 Gerardo Camilo, Th...
07/28/2021
If any of you are watching BeeTV in Calgary this summer, here’s an opportunity to share your knowledge.
06/14/2021
Bumble bees, hover flies, honey bees, lacewings, swallowtails are all having a party on the villosa lilac. There isn’t a lot of blossom out there right now so it’s a VERY popular spot. Spiders set up webs too because THEY KNOW where the good food is...EDITED 06/15 to add a few more partygoers!
Get buzzed standing under a on . Honeybees love those spangly little flowers.
03/27/2021
There is so much to learn about honey bee queens! University of Lethbridge will be digging in. https://globalnews.ca/news/7722685/university-of-lethbridge-queen-bee-study/
University of Lethbridge receives grant to study relationship between queen bees and their colonies Queen bees are about to get more attention from University of Lethbridge researchers.
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HELLO FRIENDS! I am still doing some work in the classrooms but now it is through my role as agriculture educator at Northlands. Shoot me an email or give me a call at 780-471-7331 or [email protected]
BEE SCHOOL with Lola Canola brings you fun and informative in-school field trips for kids K-5. Students will 1) have a BEE-lightful time! 2) Learn a ton about bees. Lola Canola's Bee School can be custom fit to your class, whatever the age level. Bee School is particularly relevant for the following grades and science topics: Grade 1 Topic B: Seasonal Changes; Topic E: Needs of Animals & Plants Grade 2 Topic E: Small Crawling & Flying Animals Grade 3 Topic E Animal Life Cycles Grade 4 Topic E: Plant Growth & Changes Grade 5 Topic E: Trees & Forests Lola Canola aka Patty Milligan spent twelve years producing and selling honey at farmers' markets in the Edmonton area. Currently she looks after hives at Northlands Urban Farm and the Shaw Conference Centre. Patty loves teaching children about bees. In the past, she has hosted on-farm school tours with Sprout Farms U-Pick Apple Orchard and Wild Green Garden Consultants. She talks with many young people through Bon Accord Community School, Lilian Schick School, the Battle River Watershed Alliance, and Northlands Urban Farm. She is also a knowledgeable and enthusiastic instructor especially for beginner beekeepers. She’s taught with A.B.C. in Calgary and Northern Lakes College in Slave Lake. Currently she teaches through the University of Alberta’s Devonian Botanic Gardens and Yellowhead County. An engaging speaker for any age group, Patty has presented about bees, beekeeping, honey, tasting honey, gardening for bees, and supporting wild bees to groups like St. Albert Garden Club, Strathcona County Garden Club, Edmonton’s Seedy Sunday, Edmonton West Rotary, the Organic Master Gardener course, and Alberta Agriculture, to name a few. Her major goal is to spread knowledge and magic of bees to people of all ages.
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Bon Accord, AB
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Bon Accord Community School
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