Flutterby Festival Celebrates Pollinators

JUST ADDED: As a special highlight, Lara Beth Jones, Ms. North Carolina North America and Emma Taylor, USA National Miss NC Junior Teen will read pollinator-inspired books to visitors at a booth sponsored by Moore County Literacy Council and Partners for Children & Families. Jones is a licensed occupational therapist and certified nature and forest therapy guide. She encourages everyone to “free your spirit and fill your heart with the forest!”  Taylor is an eighth-grader at Sandhills Classical Christian School. She is a frequent volunteer at the Native Pollinator Garden. Bee sure to stop in!

Celebrate butterflies and other pollinators with a day of family fun and educational activities during the annual Flutterby Festival at the Village Arboretum, Pinehurst, September 24, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Presented by the Village Heritage Foundation and the Village of Pinehurst, the daylong event promotes pollinator habitats. In addition, it supports active efforts to conserve the monarch butterfly and other pollinator species. The 10,000-square-foot Native Pollinator Garden, located in the Village Arboretum, was completed in 2020 and includes native flowering perennials, host plants, walkways, and the Pollinator Pavilion.

The event features nature-based educational and fun demonstrations and programs. Learning activities include presentations on the lifecycle, migration, and plight of the monarch butterfly. Live caterpillars, chrysalides, and butterflies offer an understanding of the monarch butterfly’s transformation. Learn about birds, native bees, honeybees, and other pollinator species at exhibits offered by experts. Two Magical Monarch Butterfly Tents provide opportunities to interact and feed hundreds of newly emerged monarch butterflies. Later, visitors may tag and release adult monarch butterflies in time for the insect’s migration to Mexico.

Additional activities include:

Butterfly arts and crafts

Tours of the Native Pollinator Garden

Discussions on native plants

Information on creating a backyard pollinator garden

Enjoy live music provided from the musicians from the Carolina Philharmonic. Refreshments are available for purchase from food trucks. This is a FREE ticketed event. Please obtain your ticket at https://ticketmesandhills.com/events/flutterby-festival-9-24-2022-109214.

Dogs must be leashed in the park and are not permitted in the exhibit tents or the monarch tagging area.

Sponsored by the Village Heritage Foundation with support from the Village of Pinehurst, the Healing Gardens at FirstHealth, Carolina Philharmonic, Moore Literacy Council, Partners for Children & Families and BeeHero.org.