2025 Pollinator Outreach Kits
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Collapse ▲(We’d like to thank the NC State Youth and Consumer Horticulture Working Group for their support of this outreach tool!)
The 2025 Pollinator Outreach Kits for the Great Southeast Pollinator Census were created to support Count Event coordinators and anyone else looking to create a suite of tools and resources to learn about pollinators. The kits provide everything needed to effectively promote the Census, educate the public, and offer accessible tools and educational materials from N.C. Cooperative Extension.
The below list is provided to help anyone who wants to foundational tool kit to explore pollinators and pollinator gardening in North Carolina.

N.C. Cooperative Extension-Guilford County was a Pollinator Outreach Kit winner! Their public event is happening at 3309 Burlington Rd., Greensboro, NC 27405 on Saturday, August 23 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Photo by Holly Key
The 2025 Pollinator Outreach Kits included:
- A bumble bee puppet
- Hand lenses or loupes
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Catawba College was a Pollinator Outreach Kit winner! Their public event will happen on Friday, August 22, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Photo by Hannah Addair
A copy of The Great Pollinator Count By Susan Edwards Richmond, Illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman
- Painted Lady Butterfly Amazing Bugs® Kit
- Mason Bee Observation Box
- GSEPC in NC Perennial Marketing Materials:
- Select Pollinator Gardening Books:
- Attracting Native Pollinators by Eric Mader, Matthew Shepherd, Mace Vaughan, and Scott Black in collaboration with Gretchen LeBuhn (Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
- Pollinator Gardening for the South Creating Sustainable Habitats by Danesha Seth Carley and Anne M. Spafford (NC State University)
- The Bees of North Carolina by Drs. Hannah Levenson and elsa Youngsteadt (NC State University)
- Printed Extension Resources (available for FREE):
(The use of brand names and/or any mention or listing of specific commercial products or services herein is solely for educational purposes and does not imply endorsement by NC State University or our partners, nor discrimination against similar brands, products or services not mentioned.)

Sandhills Horticultural Gardens was a Pollinator Outreach Kit winner! Their public event is happening on both Census days from 9-11 a.m. at the Gardens, 3245 Airport Rd. Pinehurst, NC 28374. Photo by Amanda Bratcher