Bees in the North Coast and Cascades in Washington

I just rediscovered this article asking for more posts of observations for our parks. I will copy the main request, which is for more people to post their park bee photos to iNaturalist, but please go and look at the website for yourself. They have links to show photos of the bees they found there already, but let's see if we can find some others, shall we? **

https://www.nps.gov/articles/bees-of-the-north-coast-and-cascades.htm?utm_source=article&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more&utm_content=large

"Bees of the North Coast & Cascades
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, San Juan Island National Historical Park

Bees are some of the most abundant and important pollinators in the world – especially in mountainous environments. Despite the importance of bees in our natural environments, many national parks do not know what species are in their parks. In 2016, to celebrate the Centennial of the National Park Service, North Coast and Cascades National Parks focused on pollinators. The inventories we initiated at that time are just a beginning; you can continue our quest to learn more about bees by uploading your photos to inaturalist.org."

**And don't stop there, add photos of any Washington Parks. iNaturalist allows us to go back in time and add observations for old photos, so if you have hiked in the parks before and can get reasonably close with location lat/longs you could add those too.

Publicado el 05 de junio de 2022 por wenatcheeb