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Location Privacy While Bee Monitoring

Location information is critical to understanding where bees are and what plants they are pollinating. We also need to protect your privacy!

When entering your bee data, please drop the location pin at the nearest intersection to your house.

If you do not want to disclose your house location, please DO NOT place the location pin on your house.

If you need to change the location of your data, please fill out this form.

Thank you for your help in ensuring accuracy and privacy of Native Bee Watch data!
A bumble bee (Bombus spp.) in Fort Collins. Photo: Noah and Desneige Sodano
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A green metallic sweat bee (Agapostemon spp.). Photo: Noah and Desneige Sodano
Getting Started
If you are new to Native Bee Watch, WELCOME!! Please scroll down to see instructions on how to get started! We are excited you are here!
Interactive Bee Data Dashboard is LIVE!
View your data here! We are so excited to introduce a brand new resource! Check out the new interactive data dashboard! You can explore bee monitoring data being collected all over Colorado in real time. Be sure to read the instruction box on how to use the dashboard in the bottom left corner.

A huge thank you to Linda Parnes for building the dashboard! Linda is a student employee at the Geospatial Experience Center at Front Range Community College
Volunteers Needed: Help monitor a public garden in July and August!
Are you wanting to do more bee monitoring?? We have a few public gardens which we need help monitoring on a weekly basis! You can pick as many or as few weeks as you want. Please reach out to us at nativebeewatch@gmail.com if you are interested and we can get you more information!

Public gardens include:
  • Carson Nature Center, Littleton
  • Nix Farm Natural Area, Fort Collins
  • CSU Trial Gardens, Fort Collins

We can use help as soon as possible! Email soon!
Interested in tracking your own bee data?
All data needs to be entered using the survey tool. This is a requirement for volunteering.

Some volunteers have expressed interest in tracking their own data in a spreadsheet. This is OPTIONAL! You can download a template spreadsheet available on the Volunteer Resources page. This is a way to enter your data so you can have a copy. Again, this is an optional activity.
Get Started Bee Monitoring!

For those that are new, or still need to take the training, here are the steps to start:

Visit the website:
  • Link: NativeBeeWatch.org
  • Click on "Volunteer Resources"
  • Enter the password: beesRfun
  • Bookmark and remember this website! This is the home base for all volunteer resources. Explore everything on this page. 

Take the Training:
  • Under "Volunteer Resources," you will find the training video, PowerPoint slides, and the field guide.
  • Download the field guide to review, print, and/or take notes.
  • Watch the training video.

Take the quiz:
  • You will see the quiz link on the website. Please take the quiz when you ready. 
  • Remember: the quiz is a learning tool. You can take it as many times as you wish! We want you to feel comfortable and confident with bee ID.
  • We would like you to score at least an 85 before you begin data collecting.

Begin data collecting:
  • Once you score an 85 or better, you may begin bee monitoring! Note the link to the data collection page is on the website. It is also here: https://arcg.is/1DPvv0
We hope you are enjoying bee monitoring this summer! If you have any questions, please reach out to NativeBeeWatch@gmail.com or Lisa.Mason@colostate.edu.
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