We need your assistance documenting New York's pollinators! This iNaturalist project is an important component of the Empire State Native Pollinator Survey, which aims to determine the conservation status of a wide array of New York's native insect pollinators, focusing on certain focal groups of bees, flies, moths, and beetles in nonagricultural habitats.
Our focal species as as ...more ↓
We need your assistance documenting New York's pollinators! This iNaturalist project is an important component of the Empire State Native Pollinator Survey, which aims to determine the conservation status of a wide array of New York's native insect pollinators, focusing on certain focal groups of bees, flies, moths, and beetles in nonagricultural habitats.
Our focal species as as follows:
Bumble bees and long-horned bees, Family Apidae: Bombus, Melissodes
Mining bees, Family Andrenidae: Andrena, Calliopsis
Leafcutter bees, Family Megachilidae: Megachile, Osmia
Bee flies, Family Bombyliidae: Bombylius
Hover flies, Family Syrphidae
Flower longhorn beetles, Family Cerambycidae: Lepturinae
Hairy flower scarabs, Family Scarabeidae: Trichiotinus
Hawk (sphinx) moths, Family Sphingidae
Flower moths, Family Noctuidae: Schinia
(The project will allow the submission of any bee, fly, beetle, or moth, but we encourage participants to submit photographs of species in these focal groups. See www.nynhp.org/pollinators for the rationale behind the selection of focal taxa.)
If you cannot identify your subject to species, no worries! The project experts and the iNaturalist community will help. Photographs need not be from the 2018-2020 project period, although that is our primary focus. Please ensure that locations and dates are accurate.
If you wish to take part in other components of the Survey, primarily netting insects and placing bee bowls, check out our Participant Handbook, available at www.nynhp.org/pollinators.
I hope you’ll join us! Please help us spread the word!
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Empire State Native Pollinator Survey
