A bumblee perched atop a yellow cutleaf coneflower
The Environmental Interpretive Center serves as the heart of UM-Dearborn’s Interpretive Trails, a sprawling 120-acre nature preserve dedicated to education and conservation. With a two-mile trail system and numerous community programs, visitors are invited to experience the vital bond between humans and the environment.
One such program is their annual Pollinator Photo Contest, featuring pollinators and their flowering plants. The University of Michigan-Dearborn has been certified as a Bee Campus USA affiliate by the Xerces Society since 2019 for its efforts to promote pollinator education and conservation, and submissions come in each year from the U-M community and beyond. This submission came in from Fatima Hammade, a U-M Dearborn student in the College of Arts, Science and Letters. Taken on site at the Environmental Interpretive Center, Fatima captured a bumblebee interacting with a cutleaf coneflower.
Learn more about the Pollinator Photo Contest, and see this year’s winners!
And next time you’re in the U-M Dearborn, visit the Environmental Interpretive Center— maybe you’ll spot some pollinators too!
