September is the month for the National Recreation and Park Association’s Parks for Pollinators campaign. Don’t miss this opportunity for you and your family to become community scientists. Contribute to local knowledge about the animals who pollinate the plants that all of us depend on. No previous experience is needed!
Friends of Rio Vista and Reid Park Zoo are partners in helping you on your pollinator expedition in Tucson. You can collect data with a free app called iNaturalist through photographs of plants, insects, and other animals. Join us this weekend and next in Bioblitz sessions at the Zoo and at Rio Vista Natural Resource Park.
Photo credit: Scott Olmstead.
TOMORROW (Sunday the 6th):
Parks for Pollinators Bioblitz
Reid Park Zoo Pollinator Garden
Sunday, September 6, 2026
8:30–10:30 a.m.
For more information, visit the Zoo’s Parks for Pollinators Bioblitz web page.
NEXT SUNDAY (the 13th):
Parks for Pollinators Bioblitz Information Session
Rio Vista Natural Resource Park, Ramada 1
Sunday, September 13, 2026
8:30–10:30 a.m.
For more information, check out the Friends of Rio Vista website’s News item on the park Bioblitz. You can record your plant and pollinator observations at Rio Vista throughout the month by uploading photographs to the Parks for Pollinators 2026: Friends of Rio Vista Project. (Watch this short video on iNaturalist for easy instructions on how to make observations.)
Believe us: You can make a significant difference by helping conservation organizations to inventory our wild pollinators. Please join us for Parks for Pollinators month!