Bee Watchers
I am so excited that one of my friends forwarded me an email about the Bee Watchers! From their website:
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation’s Greenbelt Native Plant Center, the Urban Park Rangers, and the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation have teamed up to gather information about bee diversity, bee distribution, and pollinator services in New York City’s five boroughs. If you are interested in our local pollinators, we need your help! Twice per month, from spring through the fall, we need you to observe which bee species visit native bee-pollinated plants in your backyard or at participating nature centers.
Of course, I’m on board and I will be going to the training session tomorrow at Prospect Park (coincidentally, in the building where I had my wedding - is this, dare I say, meant to bee or what?).
Photo from Kevin Cox Matteson’s Flickr bee set
that was pun-tastic.
[…] course, I’m participating in my local efforts to help the bees by acting as a volunteer bee watcher. What can you do? Check out this list from Apartment Therapy Re-Nest for more suggestions, such as […]
There are a bunch of bees outside where I work in Oakland feeding off a bush. Who can I contact to tell them about it. its been a bout 2 years since i saw them buzzing around that tree sized bush.
I was so glad to see them.