Botany

BeeSmart Pollinator Gardener

This Android and iOS app can help gardeners and those interested in plants that attact butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.  The app has nearly 1,000 pollinator friendly plants native to the U.S. organized into regions and ecological characteristics for your area.

Key Things to Know About Plants When Observing Bees

Here are some guidelines that you may need to know when observing Claytonia (spring beauties) for bee pollination activities.

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.
Project Goal: 
Determine how lichen evolved and got distributed throughout the world.
Your Role: 
Travel to mountain tops or wherever tundra grows and collect samples of one particular species of lichen (Thamnolia vermicularis).

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