Late blooming season might benefit City Nature Challenge: San Diego bee sighting opportunities.
Bee enthusiasts! I hope you are all grabbing your cameras Friday-Monday to participate in the City Nature Challenge: San Diego.
http://www.sdnhm.org/calendar/the-2018-city-nature-challenge/
Blooming season and warmer temperatures means a great opportunity to find many of our native bees foraging around San Diego County.
John Ascher @johnascher and James Hung @kjhung, amoung others, will love to see all the bees we can find! Us citizen scientists are extremely lucky to have such experts looking at our photos and identifying our little friends. Let's give back and give them great data this weekend.
Remember to photograph multiple angles if you can and record the flower species if you know it. This can help determine species.
Let's do this!
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Question: It's ok to think this is a set of dumb questions. I've been out trying to find Monarch eggs and caterpillars, and they just aren't here in force yet. So my mind has been preoccupied. I've shared the links with people, but I have questions:
Is this challenge for insects only? And f? or what area? I'm in northern San Diego county. Does this challenge cover all of the county?
Got some great bee photos yesterday that I'll post on iNaturalist for now. I know where to go to get more photos for the challenge.
thank you for your help
Found postings on FB about this. Both plants and animals.
Now does it cover all of San Diego County?
Yes, All of San Diego County and anything alive that isn't cultivated or captive (yard plants, your neighbor's cat...). Have fun!
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