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Featured Animals – Honeybee

Discover “everything honeybee” around the Zoo below; from news to adoptions, births, conservation programs, your own encounter options, animal experiences, shows, events and more.

Everything Honeybee

Meet the Brand-New Faces in My Big Backyard

May 25, 2023

There are some new whiskers, feathers and wings for you to visit in My Big Backyard on your next CMZoo adventure. Stop by and say hello to the 2-month-old guinea fowl chick (known as a keet), honeybees, African fruit chafer beetles, 3-month-old rats and extinct-in-the-wild Simandoa cave roaches! Back to The Waterhole

Meet the Bees!

May 25, 2022

Have you noticed the colorful boxes on top of Grizzly Grill? Those are our new bees’ homes! We welcomed three honeybee colonies earlier this month, and they’re hard at work building their hives. Soon, guests will be able to visit an observation colony in The Treehouse in My Big Backyard. Until then, get up-close to . . .

Pollinator Gardens Take Root in Colorado Springs, Thanks to CMZoo Members

May 23, 2019

Students at Rockrimmon Elementary School in Colorado Springs, are getting their hands dirty (with resounding encouragement from their teachers) to make an important environmental contribution, thanks to their passionate school leaders, supportive communities and a grant from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo members. In 2018, CMZoo members voted to provide three $3,000 grants to help local schools . . .

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Announces Member Conservation Vote Grant Winners

May 7, 2019

Each year, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo members vote to select which CMZoo staff-championed conservation projects will receive funding. This year, $75,000 was allocated to support projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Kenya, Laos, Vietnam, and right here, in Colorado Springs. Since 2015, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo member conservation grants have $375,000 of membership revenue to support field conservation worldwide

Annual Member Vote Keeps CMZoo on the Frontlines of Conservation

March 28, 2019

Since 2015, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Member Conservation Grants has provided $300,000 of membership revenue to support field conservation worldwide. Last year, members voted to fund projects from Central Asia to right here in Colorado. Once again, it is time for members to help CMZoo decide which staff-championed conservation projects will receive full funding. It . . .

My Big Backyard

Oversized Fun for Oversized Imaginations. Through hands-on experiences that bring you and your family up-close with some of its wild creatures, My Big Backyard is full of colossal surprises to spark kids’ imaginations about the great outdoors, creepy-crawly bugs, fantastic frogs and more!

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