USGS at the 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show

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By Eastern Ecological Science Center February 28, 2025

USGS returns to the Philadelphia Flower Show with an exhibit featuring bees, butterflies, birds and blooms. Visit our booth at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from March 1 to 9, 2025.

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Two hummingbirds on a red feeder, one with a silver band on its leg

Banded Rivoli's hummingbird on feeder

A small green, orange, black and white bird flies straight at the camera

Rufous hummingbird flying

A small grey bird perched on a plant with spines drinking nectar from a pink flower

Anna's hummingbird with penstemon flower

An orange bird sips nectar from a pink flower

Rufous hummingbird pollinating a flower

Female hummingbird sitting on nest in shrub, viewed from below

Female Black-chinned hummingbird in nest

An small grey bird sips nectar from a red flower

Costa's hummingbird on Cape honeysuckle

Bumble bee on a sunflower

Rusty patched bumble bee on milkweed

Bee perched on a echinacea purpurea, also known as purple coneflower

Bee on echinacea flower

Bumble bee on purple salvia

Long-horned bee on sunflower

Monarch butterfly on zinnia

Ruddy copper on flower

Purple coneflower

USGS at the 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show

Planting for Pollinators

USGS and Hummingbirds

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Elise Irwin, PhD

Biologist

Megan A Evans

Public Affairs Specialist

Planting for Pollinators

USGS and Hummingbirds

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Click on each image below to learn more about the photos at the 2025 exhibit

Elise Irwin, PhD

Biologist

Megan A Evans

Public Affairs Specialist

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of the Interior