

If your agency signs up to host an event during the month of September, they will also be entered to win one of three $1,000 prizes and one of three Scotts Miracle-Gro prize packs to help with your pollinator habitats or programs!
By signing up you will:
Please reach out to resilience@nrpa.org with any questions or technical difficulties as you complete your sign up!
The Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz is an event where community members work with park staff to create a snapshot of the variety of wildlife that can be found in local parks. To participate, community members will use an app to take pictures of plants, insects and animals to see what wildlife is present in the park on the day of the event and provide the park system with more information about local pollinators, which are essential to our ecosystem.
During our sixth annual Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz in September 2024, nearly 100 organizations pledged to help pollinators and learn how to host a BioBlitz. Events were organized from coast to coast, with 35 states represented from Arizona to New York. These groups recorded more than 44,972 observations, documenting more than 5,000 species of both pollinators and pollinator-supporting plants. Nearly 4,900 people participated in the national BioBlitz to record these findings using iNaturalist. You can check out the results here — you can even see what pollinators were found near you on our iNaturalist page!
Hosting a Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz event allows your community to explore your parks, to engage in environmental issues, and to see how many pollinators and pollinator-friendly plants they can find. You can even make a competition out of it to see who can find the most species. Your BioBlitz will produce data specific to your parks and community. The results of all the local BioBlitz events will be incorporated into the national campaign to show how parks across the country are supporting pollinators in their local spaces.
Your agency can use that data from the event to create an inventory of the species (pollinators and plants) found in your local parks. This can be a valuable tool to better manage your open spaces and help you create your future management and sustainability plans. You can also grow your environmental education and engage a whole new group of volunteers and future park ambassadors! Read about the possibilities here.
According to agencies who have participated in our BioBlitz:
Agencies use what they learned to:
This is a great opportunity to engage your community members in a community science event while promoting pollinator awareness and education.
The Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz is hosted on iNaturalist. Park and recreation agencies who participate will create a local campaign under NRPA’s national Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz campaign. Instructions for how to do this are included in the BioBlitz toolkit you will receive after signing up.