Kelly Sullivan / Parks Conservancy
Join our Tamalpais Bee Lab to become a community scientist and help study our local bees! You'll learn about these important pollinators and insect identification, while building our knowledge about local bees. Plus, it's fun!
When: Saturday, April 4, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: Bon Tempe Lake, Fairfax
The Tamalpais Bee Lab, a program of our One Tam partnership, is studying local wild bees in Marin County. Back in 2017, we started with inventorying which species were present in the county's public lands. Now, we're focusing on better understanding local bee communities. We're gathering information to inform future targeted monitoring and contributing local data to broader efforts seeking to study and protect native bees. This includes participating in the California Bumble Bee Atlas, and volunteers can get involved!
The California Bumble Bee Atlas is a collaborative community science effort, coordinated by the Xerxes Society of Invertebrate Conservation and California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The goal is to track and conserve California’s native bumble bee species and contribute to the global understanding of bumble bee distributions. Learn more about why we're focusing on bumble bees and how it works: cabumblebeeatlas.org
Volunteers can participate in these bumble bee surveys with us! You must register in advance here >>
Please note that while you can register for this program on multiple dates at the link above, locations will vary, so please note where each date is taking place. Registrants will receive more information closer to the event. Generally, each survey involves:
- Visiting a site designated by One Tam agency partners as an area of interest.
- Searching for bees or their nest sites.
- Documenting the bees and/or nest sites with high quality photographs.
- Uploading the photographs and metadata to a portal for identification by experts.
Questions? Please email communityscience@onetam.org
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