Mission: Pollination!

Ready to Begin Your Mission?


YOUR MISSION: Build a team of pollinator heroes, discover how they save the desert, and learn how you can help them too.

Step 1: Choose your team — Bloomkeeper, Leafbound, or Shadowcraft 

Step 2: Explore to Find the Heroes — As you navigate the Zoo and find the supersized pollinators, look out for your team’s icon on their signs.

Step 3: Unlock Their Powers — Solve the riddles on each sign to learn what makes these pollinators special —
and what you can do to help protect them.

Step 4: Show Your Support — Snap a photo with each pollinator hero on your team.

Step 5: Visit the Pollinator Playground Maze — Test out your new pollinator super powers and collect your trading card!

Looking to find your teammates? Check out the map and pollinator locations below!

 

Bloomkeeper

  • American Hoverfly Location: In between the coyote habitat and Wild Prairies
  • Hummingbird Clearwing Moth Location: Across from the emu habitat, next to walkway coming from Discovery Center to Australia
  • Long-horned Bee Location: In front of the oryx habitat, near Bighorn Cafe
  • Monarch Butterfly Location: Next to Tennity Wildlife Hospital
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Location: In the Trains exhibit
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Location: Across from the emu habitat, next to walkway coming from Discovery Center to Australia
  • Violet Carpenter Bee Location: Between the Trains exhibit and Kookaburra Cafe
  • Cecropia Luna Moth Caterpillar Location: In between Bighorn Mountain and the hiking trails 
  • Glorious Scarab Beetle Location: In between the Oasis Splash Pad and Trains
  • Karner Blue Butterfly (Male) Location: In between the cheetah and zebra habitats
  • Leafhopper Location: In front of the oryx habitat, near Bighorn Cafe
  • Milkweed Leaf Beetle Location: Across from the carousel 
  • Poweshiek Skipperling Location: In between Wild Prairies and Tennity Wildlife Hospital
  • Rosy Maple Moth Location: Across from the coati habitat, going toward Wild Americas
  • American Pelecinid Wasp Location: In between Trains and Kookaburra Cafe
  • Blue Mud Wasp Location: Across from Pollinator Playground Maze
  • Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Location: Outside of Bighorn Cafe, facing the Hiking Trails 
  • Green Lacewing Location: In between Rhino Savanna and the giraffe habitat
  • Goldenrod Crab Spider (Male/Female) Location: Across from the African painted dog habitat
  • Parasitic Wasp with Larvae on Hornworm. Location: Next to the Appel Gift Shop
  • Scoliid Wasp Location: In between Trains and Kookaburra Cafe
  • Giant Hairy Scorpion Location: In between the Oasis Splash Pad and Trains