Want to collect data with us for the #California #BumbleBee Atlas? Virtual training workshops begin this Saturday, March 5! Find more info and register here: cabumblebeeatlas.org/events.html

Join the #California Bumble Bee Atlas! Help us to collect data on where the state's #bumblebee #pollinators occur and how they're doing. #CommunityScience #CitizenScience

Interested in #pollinators? Join #California Bumble Bee Atlas staff for a field walk on Saturday, April 2nd in San Diego County! Find info and register for this event and others: cabumblebeeatlas.org/events.html #CaBumbleBeeAtlas #bumblebees #communityscience

Got green? The desert green hairstreak (Callophrys sheridanii comstocki) comes dressed to impress for #StPatricksDay🍀. One our favorite green insects, Xerces is working to improve data collection and raise awareness of this imperiled species. Learn more: buff.ly/3CPqsV2

The Bumble Bee Atlas is upon us! A joint effort of The Xerces Society,California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Bureau of Land Management California, California Bumble Bee Atlas enlists volunteers to better understand and protect imperiled CA bumble bees. In-person training coming up April 2, and online trainings here: cabumblebeeatlas.org/events.html

The 2022 Theodore Payne Foundation Wildflower Hotline founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates – posted each Friday from March through May – on the best locations for viewing spring #wildflowers in Southern and Central #California. theodorepayne.org/learn/wildflow…

See RFP below: The Xerces Society would like to more deeply engage with diverse communities that more closely reflect the pop. of California with the goal of increasing the diversity of participants in our community science projects. Please help spread the word! California Bumble Bee Atlas

Bees are flying in many areas of California. Today we open another 1/3 of the state to surveys for the California Bumble Bee Atlas. Please join us! cabumblebeeatlas.org

We have 2 upcoming in-person field events planned for the California Bumble Bee Atlas! Join us April 23 in San Francisco & April 24 in Mendocino to meet the bees and learn project methods! Info and registration: cabumblebeeatlas.org/events.html The Xerces Society #bumblebees #California

Fun times in northern #california last week. Thanks to Filoli and Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens for hosting #californiabumblebeeatlas volunteers as we learn to catch, photo, and release #bumblebees! The Xerces Society California Department of Fish and Wildlife

This includes the California Bumble Bee Atlas. Please follow us at Bumble Bee Atlas!

Piloted the California Bumble Bee Atlas protocol today with a student. Here's some outtakes (yes, I know pic 3 is not a bumblebee)

Happy Bee Day, everyone! 🐝 Nevada bumble bee on Palouse thistle.

This is also true of California Bumble Bee Atlas! Please join us at @BumbleBeeAtlas to continue hearing from The Xerces Society and our partners about #bumblebees and our community science work to conserve them.

Did you take the #California Bumble Bee Atlas training and can't get enough of Bombus ID? Join us this Thursday to learn more about distinguishing difficult species pairs, male bumble bee ID, and more! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join #California #Bumblebee Atlas staff for a field walk THIS SATURDAY, May 28 at UC Davis Arboretum! We'll tour the gardens and learn to catch and identify bumble bees. And, more fields events are coming! Info and registration here: cabumblebeeatlas.org/events.html

Great news! California's Third District Court of Appeal ruled that the California Endangered Species Act can protect invertebrates, including four species of imperiled native bumble bees. Get the full story: xerces.org/press/californ…

What #bumble bee species did scientists and citizen scientists find on the California Bumble Bee Atlas tour in the #ucdavis Arboretum and Public Garden? See the mite on #Bombus melanopygus? Photos by Dylan Winkler and Cindy McReynolds. #BugSquad bit.ly/3xarQ1Y

Are you a #CaliforniaBumbleBeeAtlas volunteer? Join the Bumble Bee Atlas Survey Blitz! We'll be comparing across 10 The Xerces Society state #bumblebee atlas projects on three weekends to see which state can collect the most observations. Get out there with your net June 25-26!

More field walks for the California Bumble Bee Atlas! Also, reminder: if you follow the Atlas at this handle (California Bumble Bee Atlas), we're now tweeting instead at @BumbleBeeAtlas instead. Follow to continue hearing about the project.