« About BeeSpotter

The following is a list of websites (in no particular order) which share similar interests to those of BeeSpotter, primarily helping conserve bee populations and learning more about our pollinating friends.

• SciStarter

  SciStarter (formerly Science for Citizens) aims to connect the millions of citizen scientists in the world with the thousands of potential projects offered by researchers, organizations, and companies.

• UI Pollinatarium

  The University of Illinois Pollinatarium is the first free-standing science center in the nation devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators!

• PollinatorLIVE

  PollinatorLIVE is geared to students in grades 4 to 8. Join them for live webcasts/broadcasts as well as a variety of other educational training activites!

• Pollinators.info

  Pollinators.info is designed to teach folks of all knowledge levels about pollination, pollinators, and things you can do to be part of the Pollinator Conservation Movement!

• Squash Bees of the Americas

  Be sure to check out their PDF 'Wallet Card' for identifying the bumble bees of the Cache valley!

• The Great Sunflower Project

• Pollination Canada

• Broodmapper

  Broodmapper is an interactive environment where you can learn to identify different stages of brood development and cell contents as you perform citizen science

• Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium

• The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)

• Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT)

• UF Native Buzz

  A citizen-science project with the goal of learning more about the nesting preferences, diversity, and distribution of native solitary bees and wasps, to share the information gained and to provide a forum for those interested in participating in the science and art of native beekeeping (and wasp-keeping!)

The following projects are now, sadly, defunct:

• Inouye Database

  The Inouye Database is a comprehensive source of almost 10,000 bibliographic citation records for publications about bees, flies, hummingbirds, wildflowers, pollination biology, flowering phenology, plant demography, and plant-animal interactions.