Competition Round 2 Winner
Hi everyone,
You blew me out of the water with participation in this round of the NCSU Campus Bee Competition! We had a whopping 930 bee observations submitted from April 1st - 22nd with 13 observers participating. I want to thank everyone for their hard work and dedication to capturing records of our campus pollinators.
With that said, I want to congratulate @lizarddwizard for winning the prize for the most submissions with 320 observations across 10 different bee species. I want to also give a huge shoutout to @erinpeters_ and @pen_hunter for their immense efforts as well - there was a lot of back and forth and I wasn't sure who was going to come out on top!
This round of the competition saw 18 different species recorded (and that's just what has been identified so far - hopefully our resident iNaturalist bee experts will go through all of the submissions and give their opinions on all the species we captured). With surprise to nobody, carpenter bees came out on top with over a third of the submissions. We had a lot of honey bees and some bumble bees as well. What was super interesting to me were the submissions of some very cool solitary species that were observed. We now have records of mason bees using our bee hotels! There is a lot of interesting data here that I hope will inform future pollinator garden implementation and management.
While I am graduating, I am very happy to report that the NC State Sustainability Fund has granted the Bee Campus USA Committee funding for two internship positions next year. This means that there will be a continuation of the work I've started, and hopefully more work with campus bee iNaturalist data!
As a side note, if you would like to check out some interactive exhibits featuring this data, both Hunt and D.H. Hill libraries have displays currently.
Thank you to everyone who interacted with bees on campus and who participated in pollinator conservation!
Signing off,
Ren Rooney
lnrooney@ncsu.edu
rooneyren9@gmail.com
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