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Flowers to attract bumble bees

"Recognized by pollination ecologists as attracting large numbers of bumble bees." This list provides the common name and scientific name of 462 different flowering plants one can use to attract and help save bumble bees.

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Vermont Atlas of Life

Project Goal: 
Improve and update knowledge and of biodiversity in Vermont; provide open access to biodiversity data; foster discovery, conservation, and education; and build a community of those interested in natural heritage.
Your Role: 
Look for species and share your sightings via eBird, iNaturalist, eButterfly or Odonata Central.
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Website: 
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The Hym Course

HYM Course 2014 will be offered at Eagle Hill Institute in Steuben, Maine in August this year.

The main objective of the course is to provide participants with knowledge and experience in identifying parasitic and predatory wasps, sawflies, wood wasps, bees, and ants. We will also present information on the natural history of wasps, bees, and ants, and that information will be reinforced with fieldwork. Techniques used to collect, rear, preserve, and curate wasps, bees, and ants will be presented in a hands-on manner to allow participants to learn directly by doing.

Course Dates: 
Sunday, August 17, 2014 to Saturday, August 23, 2014
Website: 
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Vermont Bumblebee Survey

Project Goal: 
Document the relative abundance and distribution of bumblebees (Bombus) and the eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) across Vermont
Your Role: 
Select a site and monitor it for bee activity, collect some specimens as required and report your findings.
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Website: 
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Project Bumble Bee

Project Goal: 
Track the status of five bumble bee species to determine whether their population is in decline and where current populations live.
Your Role: 
Create habitat that bumble bees prefer, report activity near nesting sites.
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Bumble Bee Watch

Project Goal: 
Track and conserve North America's native bumble bee population.
Your Role: 
Learn how to identify and find bumble bees, photograph them and report your observations. You can go one further and create ideal habitat for bees, stop using pesticides and spread the word.
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Website: 
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Spring Beauty and the Bees

Project Goal: 
Determine: which pollinators are most important to rare plants; which pollinators influence the evolution of floral traits; and which pollinators are most important for increasing crop yield.
Your Role: 
Locate a patch of spring beauty (Claytonia virginica or Claytonia caroliniana), observe the flowers for pollinator activity, record your data over the course of 3 - 4 weeks while the flowers are in bloom and submit your results.
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Website: 
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Native Buzz

Project Goal: 
Learn about the nesting preferences, diversity and distribution of solitary bees and wasps.
Your Role: 
Build your own nesting site, monitor your site for bee activity and report your findings.
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The Great Sunflower Project

Project Goal: 
Gather information about urban, suburban and rural bee populations to assess the status of bee populations and the impact that a decline could have on the pollination of flowering plants.
Your Role: 
Observe sunflowers for pollinator activity, records your observations and submit your data to the website.
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Bee Hunt!

Project Goal: 
Assess whether pollination by bees is in decline and if climate change is causing a mismatch between bloom times and pollination.
Your Role: 
Find bees and document them with photographs, GPS location, a description of the habitat and additional details about the environment. Visit the Bee Hunt! website for details, and upload your data.
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