SNOHOMISH COUNTY — How’d you like to help butterflies or the bees?
The Snohomish County PUD is distributing 30 butterfly feeders through Sno-Isle Libraries’ mobile library system.
Each kit comes with instructions, necessary materials and background information on why the particular pollinator is important to our ecosystem. The kits are designed for students at a third or fourth-grade level.
At 9 a.m. on Earth Day (Thursday, April 22), the PUD will place more butterfly kits in its Little Free Libraries outside the PUD offices in Monroe (120 E. Fremont St.) and Lynnwood (21014 63rd Ave. W), spokeswoman Kellie Stickney said.
To ask the library system about the Sno-Isle mobile van, call 360-651-7059.
The PUD also distributed
50 mason bee kits through the Everett Public Library; the library reports it has no more bee kits.
The kids who go to the Boys and Girls Club can get a hummingbird feeder from the same PUD giveaway.
Mason bees are prolific pollinators which rarely sting (the males don’t have stingers), according to gardening experts.
The utility will host an educational talk about biodiversity Thursday, April 22 at noon. To join that online, go to www.tinyurl.com/PUDbiodiversity
