Community scientists in Pennsylvania have reported multiple new species of bees never before found in the commonwealth through a monitoring program led by Penn State.
Community scientists in Pennsylvania have reported multiple new species of bees never before found in the commonwealth through a monitoring program led by Penn State.
The program, in which highly trained participants collected bees throughout Pennsylvania, was designed to document regional patterns of bee biodiversity and their abundance as the critically important pollinators are in decline nationwide.
A new study, recently published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, evaluated the efficacy of the program, finding that 26 trained program volunteers were more than twice as effective at documenting bee diversity than thousands of users of the photo-based app iNaturalist.
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A mining bee (Andrena sp.) climbs on a blueberry flower. The bee species was one spotted by volunteers through a program led by Penn State. (Photo Credit: Nash Turley / Penn State)
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