Collect Specimens

Your Wild Life

Project Goal:

Explore the ecosystems that exist right under our noses, homes and neighborhoods.

Your Role:

Check out the listing of different projects and join one or more effort or try one of the teaching modules.

Website:

Website Main Page

School of Ants

Project Goal:

Make detailed maps of the wildlife that lives just outside our doorstep.

Your Role:

Make an ant sampling kit, record data, submit data online and send in your specimens

Website:

Website Main Page

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.

Website:

Visit the website for details and to sign up.

ZomBee Watch

Project Goal:

Determine where in North America, the zombie fly, Apocephalus borealis is parasitizing honey bees, determine how often honey bees leave their hives at night.

Your Role:

Collect honey bees that are stranded under porch lights or on sidewalks. You can also set up a light trap and test for presence of zombie fly infection. Upload your results to the ZomBee Watch website.

Website:

Zombee Watch website