Like everything else in nature, plants and pollinators follow the seasons. Each springtime, plants push their stems out of the soil and start to blossom, while pollinators emerge from eggs, cocoons and hibernation spots to pollinate flowers. You could say it happens like clockwork. But not every living thing goes by the same clock. Plants have different life cycles than pollinators. And with climate change happening, the clocks of the seasons themselves are changing. How are pollinators and plants adapting? Pollination writer Stephen Humphrey will discuss the life cycles of different plants and pollinators throughout the changing seasons, and how they adapt to changing climate.

Stephen Humphrey is a writer, radio contributor and citizen naturalist originally from Western Canada, now based in Toronto. He is the author of Paths of Pollen, a science/ecology book that chronicle’s pollen’s do-or-die mission to spread plant genes under increasing ecological strain, and the struggle of plants and their pollinators amid shrinking biodiversity.

This presentation will be online only (Zoom) on Thursday, April 16 @ 7:30pm. On the Monday preceding the event, Nature Vancouver members will receive the Zoom link in the weekly e-News.  The talk will begin at 7:30 pm.  Non-members are welcome and should Email zoom-request@NatureVancouver.ca between the preceding Friday and Wednesday to register for the link.