Happy 4th of July
Dear All,
I did my first sample last week – 30 minutes and no bees. We’ve moved to a new house with not much more than dirt for a garden and gosh, the bees are really not there. It will be so interesting to see how that changes as I restore the yard to natives (and a few vegetables!).
Let me remind you to fill out your garden description form before you enter data. It’s quick. From now on, we are asking everyone to write down the actual time of day that you start sampling and when you saw each bee. The data should be entered as military time so, 2:05 pm will be 14:05. You don’t need to keep track of seconds. If you happen to have something happen and needed to cut short your sampling, please let us know in the comments. The form won’t allow you to write times for sampling for longer than 30 minutes. I’m working on getting some training slides up to help with bee identification and the new picture upload will be ready next week. I’ll send an email as soon as they are done.
We’ve got the phenology form up. Take a look at the left side of the screen when you login and you’ll find it there. These data will be used to look for changes in plant phenology with climate so, do contribute.
It looks like we won’t have enough extra funds to hire someone to help reply to email so, please bear with me. I’m trying to keep up!
Happy 4th of July!
Gretchen LeBuhn
The Queen Bee