Scads of bees are dying and nobody knows what to do about it, but one group in New York is busy (as a BEE) looking for answers. The Great Pollinator Project seeks amateur bee enthusiasts to record some of New York’s 226 bee species doing what they do best: pollinating.
Sign up here; the Pollinator Project will set you up with an area, and some info, like the types of flowers that need monitoring and which types of bees are active at a given time. All you have to do is situate yourself before a flower and observe it for a half hour, write your observations on a data sheet they provide, and send it back. Think of it as a meditation. Its way easier than being an actual beekeeper, and the odds of being stung are probably pretty low.
[via The High Line blog]
And now for your moment of Zen.
Sign up here; the Pollinator Project will set you up with an area, and some info, like the types of flowers that need monitoring and which types of bees are active at a given time. All you have to do is situate yourself before a flower and observe it for a half hour, write your observations on a data sheet they provide, and send it back. Think of it as a meditation. Its way easier than being an actual beekeeper, and the odds of being stung are probably pretty low.
[via The High Line blog]