Come and learn more about Britain’s rarest bee with our free activities!

Join us at The Box on selected dates throughout the Easter holidays to learn more about the remarkable Six-Banded nomad bee, which lives in South Devon. We’ll have a range of free activities on offer and some visiting experts who’ll be sharing their knowledge too. Our sessions are drop in, between 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm.

Each day
Try your hand at our endangered local bees ‘Spotter Guide’ with identification facts.

1, 2, 5 and 6 April
Make Long Horned Bee headdresses or masks, or Nomad Bee puppets.

4 and 11 April
Life on the Edge will be with us making wildflower seed balls, Long Horned Bee pompoms and tissue paper meadow flowers. Join Life on the Edge at 4pm in the Mammoth Gallery, when they’ll be giving a talk about endangered insects.

12, 13, 14 and 15 April
Make Nomad Bee puppets.

Also, on 5 and 12 April
Join our Natural History Curator, Sarah Marden from 11am-12pm and 2pm-3pm to see bee specimens from our collections and learn some myth busting fascinating facts.

Our 2023 Easter holiday activities are part of The Wild Escape, a major project linking museums, schools and children across the UK. The project is led by the Art Fund and supported by Arts Council England.