BEES IN SCIENCE PROGRAM
Join our team of citizen scientists to help pollinator conservation!
COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROJECTS
Science is a great method for answering important questions about our world, and you don't need a lab coat and a fancy degree to do it! Sometimes, scientists have questions that can't be answered by them or their team alone, and that's where we can all help.
You can join in these efforts to protect our pollinators and contribute to innovations in agriculture by doing citizen science! Below are some great projects that are easy, fun, and important. Get your science on!
Learn more about our COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROGRAMS!
GET INVOLVED!
Registration forms for schools and links for community members are listed below!
Schools and community members can join the research team at San Francisco State University, where biologist, Dr. John Hafernik, has discovered that the parasitic Zombie Fly was laying its eggs in honey bees, causing them to act like zombies and eventually die! You'll help track where this parasitism is occurring by building a simple light trap to catch infected bees and observing them for zombie fly larvae. Share your findings on the official Zombee Watch Project Website to help scientists better understand this strange phenomenon.
Educators can join The ZomBee Watch Program for Schools here. This program is offered in partnership with The Planet Bee Native Bee Community Science Project.
Become a real bee scientist through this unique conservation opportunity, as you participate in citizen science while supporting local bee and pollinator populations. This program includes a self-paced program for community members and schools.
This program includes building a native bee nest that you engineer! As you collect data, you will input it into iNaturist and our website portal.
POLLINATOR SAFARI
Join our team of community scientists by registering here. Then register on iNaturalist to help you learn to use iNaturalist to discover and identify the pollinators in your own backyard! Our Pollinator Safari is a citizen science project using the iNaturalist platform developed by the California Academy of Sciences and National Geographic. Here we provide guidance regarding how to join our project, how to observe and identify pollinators, and how to map pollinators in your neighborhood.
The observations that you contribute to the Pollinator Safari will help pollinator conservation researchers with a wealth of data including the local abundance, diversity, seasonality and resource preferences of pollinators. Teachers can use the data generated to help students understand, compare and contrast the pollinators found locally around the world!