<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Thelma Redick</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:TRedick@wildlifehc.org">TRedick@wildlifehc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:56 AM<br>Subject: FW: webinar and INSECT HOTEL Challenge<br>To: Kelly Rourke <<a href="mailto:kr@pollinator.org">kr@pollinator.org</a>><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_5996129706749320421WordSection1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.wildlifehc.org/knowledge-resource/build-a-bug-palace/" target="_blank">http://www.wildlifehc.org/<wbr>knowledge-resource/build-a-<wbr>bug-palace/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:45.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:31.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006a71">Build a Bug Palace – Learn How Easy, Inexpensive Insect Hotels Can Enhance Your Habitat<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST</b><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">What is an Insect Hotel?<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Part art, part habitat, insect (or bug) hotels are quickly catching on as an inexpensive, easy and fun way to provide food, shelter, and nesting and hibernation space to
all manner of bugs: native bees, lacewings, beetles, ladybugs, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Join us for the webinar on how to easily and inexpensively build an Insect Hotel on your site. And then, <a href="http://www.wildlifehc.org/insect-hotel-challenge-entry-form/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#7ac143">enter
your hotel in our “Best of” challenge</span></a>!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.wildlifehc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NYER_hotel4.jpg" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7ac143;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="300" height="274" style="width:3.125in;height:2.8541in" id="m_5996129706749320421Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D396A7.BA6FF2C0" alt="http://www.wildlifehc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NYER_hotel4-300x274.jpg"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Why
an Insect Hotel?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">These bug accommodations provide interesting, beautiful structures that complement their natural settings<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">They provide valuable habitat for bugs that are pollinators, or play other critical roles in your habitat<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">They offer an opportunity for hands-on employee and/or community engagement<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Unlike most luxury hotels, they’re cheap – you don’t have to break the bank to build them, and most of the materials can be from resourced from your lands<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Learn How to Build Your Own Insect Hotel<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This webinar will give you the basic knowledge you need to create and easy, inexpensive Insect Hotel. You’ll also learn how an Insect Hotel can enhance your Conservation
Certification grasslands, landscaping or pollinator projects, and how you can use these buggy domiciles as part of your education projects as well.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We’re looking for the Best Insect Hotels<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We want to see your bug accommodations! <a href="http://www.wildlifehc.org/insect-hotel-challenge-entry-form/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#7ac143">Enter your project</span></a> in
our search for the best ones! Winners will be announced at this year’s Conservation Conference, Nov. 13-14. Categories include:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Best Large Size Hotel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Best Small to Mid Size Hotel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Thelma E. Redick</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">
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Senior Director, Conservation Content & Partnerships<br>
WILDLIFE HABITAT COUNCIL<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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